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Still Room for Humans
Still Room for Humans
Career Planning in an AI World
Stan Schatt, PhD
Still Room for Humans: Career Planning in an AI World
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ISBN-13: 978-1-63742-453-7 (paperback)
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Description
Don’t Let Artificial Intelligence and Robots Steal Your Job!
Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to:

• make yourself indispensable to your company,
• develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match,
• collaborate with robots,
• retool your skills without going back to school.
You will also learn which traditionally safe careers and entire industries will no longer be safe in the future because of artificial intelligence. The author details why the changes caused by disruptive technology will be far greater and take place far faster than in previous industrial revolutions.
This book offers several ways to cope with the introduction of artificial intelligence and robotics to a company or organization as well as how to take advantage of the disruption likely to result from other new technologies, including 3D printing, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, green technologies, Big Data, blockchain, and nanotechnology.
Still Room for Humans spells out the types of jobs long associated with well-paying careers that should be avoided because they are most likely to be eliminated by artificial intelligence. It lists several new jobs that don’t exist yet but will be created shortly as new technologies become more prevalent.
Schatt provides career planning information as well as specific advice for those readers already employed.
Keywords
artificial intelligence; robots; automation; career planning; virtual reality; green technologies; fusion; blockchain; Internet of things; universal basic income; nanotechnology; quantum computing
Contents
Testimonials
Foreword
Chapter 1 This Time, Change Will Be Different
Chapter 2 Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 3 Robotics
Chapter 4 3D and 4D Printing
Chapter 5 Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Chapter 6 Improved Green Technologies Will Create Millions of Jobs
Chapter 7 The Internet of Things
Chapter 8 Virtual Reality
Chapter 9 Big Data
Chapter 10 Genomics and Human Augmentation
Chapter 11 Nanotechnology
Chapter 12 Emerging Technologies
Chapter 13 Developing a Career Plan
Chapter 14 Coping With Massive Change
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Testimonials
“If you are at the beginning or even middle of your career, you need to know what is coming to maximize your job satisfaction, employment potential, and income. Doing that today is problematic, given the changes to human augmentation, AI, robotics, currency, and even more disruptive technologies like nanotechnology, green tech, and quantum computing. In his book Still Room for Humans: Career planning in an AI World, Dr. Stan Schatt does an excellent job covering where these key technologies are, how they will evolve, and how you should adjust your short- and long-term career plans to take advantage of the coming waves best and avoid being buried by them. Being forewarned is being forearmed, and Stan’s book will give you the information you need to ensure your future.”— Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst, Enderle Group
“A well-researched and, at the same time, practical gem of a book on how to prepare for a future that is quickly evolving. What will matter most in the years ahead is agility and insights. Still Room for Humans is a must-read for those who are experiencing uncertainty and rapid changes, and eager to be smarter than other employees or investors.” — Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts
“A truly captivating read on the impact of emerging technologies on your life, your career, and your world. For those at various career stages, this book provides critical insight on how your future will be impacted—and what to do about it!”— Barry Gilbert, Cofounder, Strategy Analytics
“ In Still Room for Humans , Stan Schatt provides a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, and thoughtful examination of the ways in which disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and many others will transform our daily lives in the years to come. Schatt offers evidence-based observations, skillfully blended with business acumen and cultural insights, that provide historical context for our society’s skepticism and anxiety surrounding technological change, as well as relevant and timely recommendations on how a myriad of technologies can be effectively incorporated into a vibrant and socially responsible economy. The result is a balanced picture of the risks and rewards of new technology, together with a clear vision of career opportunities for the future and the best public policy to facilitate stable economic growth and social equity . ”— Clint Wheelock, Cofounder, Dash Network
“Understanding the future helps you plan better to meet the future. This book is a unique insight into the coming future that will help the enablers to accelerate our meeting this exciting future.
Mr. Schatt has a long history of consulting with big technology companies to help them understand the business future. In this book, he shares his unique insights into the future with all of us.
To many who see technology as a scary subject, this book demystifies the future in an easy-to-understand way. Mr. Schatt is a very good writer who is able to describe very technical subjects and make them easy to understand.” — Thomas Lobl, PhD, Entrepreneur in Residence, Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California
Foreword
It’s hard to ignore the clamor of experts warning that automation soon will eliminate millions of jobs and disrupt the lives of college-educated white-collar workers as well as high-school-educated blue-collar workers. Unfortunately, these same experts offer few answers to how workers could survive in such an environment where executives see dollar signs and greater orders of efficiency as good reasons for replacing workers with technology. It is likely many of these decision makers won’t even consider the human cost of their actions, and their corporate lobbyists will make it difficult for the government to take punitive action to prevent massive layoffs in the private sector.
In the industrial revolution that took place during the period 1760 to around 1840, manufacturing moved from a cottage industry to large-scale factory production. Workers previously employed in agriculture became factory workers. A significant portion of American manufacturing moved overseas in the late 1980s as a result of globalization and the creation of a global supply chain. Many laid-off factory workers found jobs in the services industry that unfortunately for them paid far less. *
The presidential election in 2016 revealed that the social unrest caused by unemployment and underemployment as well as the view held by many voters that government does not really care about them could have enormous consequences. In fact, I devote an entire chapter to the ways government will have to change in the future to deal with massive disruptions in the country’s labor market. It also will be necessary for people to push government officials toward labor-friendly policies as well as encourage educational institutions to adjust toward providing lifelong educational training. Workers likely will need to retool themselves frequently to adapt to changing employment patterns.
My reason for writing this book is to help readers ensure that their careers and lives will prosper and not suffer because of automation. Although there are countless books available now on automation’s impact on unemployment, they generally tend to fall into two camps. The techno-optimists point out that previous industrial revolutions have resulted in more new jobs being created than jobs lost after brief periods of adjustment, and they see no reason why this new period of disruption we are now entering should be any different. One example they often offer is that the creation of the Internet resulted in twice as many new jobs as it destroyed. 1
Another example these optimists point to is that new technology has always resulted in the creation of new types of jobs that never could have been imagined in the past. Imagine explaining to someone in 1980 that in 2020, major corporations would pay their employees staggering salaries for analyzing social media coverage, or that people would make their money by living online as cultural influencers. Explaining the value of a tweet to someone who never used the Internet would be a challenge in itself. Another challenge would be to explain to someone in 1980 that today an entirely new type of broker is beginning to specialize in selling the rights to digital works of art or that people would pay brokers to invest in digital currency mined by computers.
The techno-pessimists, on the other hand, see major differences in the impact of today’s disruptive technology compared to previous industrial revolutions. They point to the loss of enormous companies such as Sears and Montgomery Ward that provided work fo