Congratulations to all of you, you’ve made it through the fifth of the 21st century. The 2020s are here, and new challenges and innovations are emerging with this brand new decade that will change the way we live. In the past, Techtalkplanet marked the passing of each year by providing predictions for the coming year. But for this New Year’s Eve, we looked into our crystal ball to envision what the next decade will bring.
While our predictions may seem lofty and maybe even pulled from science fiction, they are all based either on technologies that are already available or are currently under development. It’s not a matter of whether they’re going to come to fruition, but when. So what tech is this decade going to change your life? Let’s look at it.
7. Mass Automation
This decade, the world’s labor force will have a reckoning. Technology is now at a point where robots can accomplish many tasks faster and more efficiently. Such robots will run themselves with the advent of AI, further removing in the process the need for humans.
The freight transportation industry will also gradually automate itself with self-driving cars and drones. Automation will become the rule over the 2020s, not the exception — potentially endangering a fifth of current jobs by 2030.
Ask Andrew Yang, this seemingly inevitable job apocalypse has even become a campaign issue for the 2020 election year. But Yang’s not going to be the last. Look forward to hearing even more about this in the coming years. Either way, we’re going to have to figure out how much automation we’re willing to accept, and what to do with the millions that will result in losing their jobs. Solving it is not an easy problem.
