Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
Aneesh Ramannytimes.com
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Opinion | When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
Saved by Alex Dobrenko and
Some future realities are obvious: the world will be increasingly automated, digital, and connected. But that doesn’t mean humans will be obsolete; just the opposite, in fact. It will be our most human qualities that are most valuable, as these can’t and shouldn’t be outsourced to machines.
Humans have two types of abilities—physical and cognitive. In the past, machines competed with humans mainly in raw physical abilities, while humans retained an immense edge over machines in cognition. Therefore, as manual jobs in agriculture and industry were automated, new service jobs emerged that required the kind of cognitive skills only human
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