Geeks Geezers And Googlization Podcast

Future of Work: Meet Generation R(obot)

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Synopsis

True or False?  There is a brewing technological storm threatening to eliminate hundreds of jobs and leave millions of workers without a paycheck. Listen to this podcast when futurists John McElligott and Ira S Wolfe discuss why robots, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and other advanced technologies probably won't destroy occupations and jobs as quickly as many experts forecast. But exponential technologies will certainly disrupt and change how work gets done. You might find this optimistic forecast odd coming from the guy whose company just created Robo-Rista to serve up coffees and lattes and Vincent van Gogh-Bot to draw sketches of customers. But York Exponential CEO John McElligott believes the immediate future features a collaborative interface between technology and human workers. "We don't automate," he insists. "We augment. We want to make sure that our robots are not taking people’s jobs; they’re saving jobs." While many companies are focused on recruiting and hiring Millennials a