Gone were the days when we had to sit on top of trees just to make calls. Today, thanks to the advancement of technology, we no longer see that except in my village.😅
Everyone wants to live an easy life and that’s okay. As humans, we have so much potential in us and we are able to achieve anything we put our minds to. How do you think we were able to evolve from the Stone Age to the much better world we are living in today.
Today, for must of us it’s ‘ there’s no life without technology’. That’s how much we have grown to become addicted to technology. Back in 2006, I remember my mom using an earthenware bowl to grind her tomatoes. We even used to drink porridge from callabash. Now, my mom doesn’t even know where her earthenware bowl is because she has a blender.<just kidding😅>
Technology has gradually grown to become the bedrock of our lives today. Actually, I’m not totally against it buts let’s not forget that technology is our friend and also our worst enemy. The issue of how human jobs will soon be replaced by robots and AI has been a topic for discussion for so long. Yet we still go on to produce more robots and even stronger AI. So, my question now is, aren’t we our own enemies? It’s like digging a grave and burying yourself in it.
One thing I am very sure about in my life is that fact that no AI or robot can take your job from you. Robots and AIs were developed by us humans and so they are programmed to do whatever we want them to do with the information we feed them. I know they say there’s so much information on the internet today but trust me when I tell you it’s not every information you find on the internet.
Think about the use of robots in healthcare. Imagine a robot being programmed strictly to perform a particular surgery . In a situation where something goes wrong or things escalate what would the robot do? It hasn’t been programmed to deal with that new development so imagine what is going to happen to our poor patient.
Being a teacher, I understand how stressful it can be to deal with kids and I would be so happy to have a robot take my place but a robot can’t do my job as I want it to be done. All the robot can do is to do what I say, in the sense that it’s only going to give out what I give it to my students. In teaching, everything counts. Your facial expressions, how you interact with your students , the discussions, the jokes and all of that. There’s no way any robot can have that kind of human connection with human beings.
We are unique as humans and that’s a fact. Even though there’s so much potential in technology, there’s also so much it lacks. The question we should be asking ourselves in these time and going forward is, how do I stand out amidst all these developments? How am I different from others or even these robots? What skills and qualifications do I posses that no Ai and robot has? What can I do differently?
It’s kill or be killed.So,how are you going to survive today and in the days to come. That’s up to you. Stand out!
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