In this rapidly evolving world Enterprise Agility is critical to enabling you to survive and thrive. But what is agility, really? Everyone seems to think they’re agile because they’re doing Agile, but this is not agility. The terms Agile, agile and agility have been applied so randomly and batted around so widely as to have become almost meaningless. Continue reading
A year ago when I talked to truck drivers they said ‘there’s no way a robot could do my job.’ This year they say, ‘We need to make robot trucks illegal’.
Andrew Yang – U.S. Presidential Candidate
The fear of massive job losses started about six years ago when University of Oxford released a report of job losses due to automation. The University reported 47% of current U.S. jobs are at risk of being impacted by or totally displaced by automation and artificial intelligence in 20 years or less.(1)
In the latest Oxford report, the numbers got worse – 80% of jobs in retail, transportation warehousing, and logistics are at risk and 63% of sales jobs were at risk pre-COVID. And by the way, the job losses and changes now will happen in 5 to 10 years or even less time because of COVID. But there’s a positive side, Tech Futures will also create work and jobs:
Work Lesson Earned: The automation of work is a global challenge. Millennial and Gen Z generations believed their economic and work futures were guaranteed with any college education. The global challenge is there are not enough high paying jobs for people and specifically recent college graduates.
(1) ‘New Report Warns 80% of Retail Jobs At Risk From Automation’, Oxford Martin School September 1, 2017.
(2) ‘Jobs of Tomorrow’, International Monetary Fund, Winter 2020.
The current Hollywood writers strike has drawn international attention to the plight of TV and film writers in the streaming era.
Much has been made of television’s golden age, during which streaming platforms have offered audiences an abundance of well-written, highly produced television shows, often called “prestige TV.” Continue reading
The component choice an electrical engineer starts with the functional requirements of the circuit. Another consideration is the rated values of the specific component selected.
Derating guidelines provide information to compare the component rated values to select stresses or conditions. The intent is to assist the engineering team to select robust enough components for the application. Continue reading
The first major discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) took place on the Campus of Dartmouth College in 1956. One result of this meeting was funding by the U.S. and British governments for AI research. The participants in the 1956 meeting included Claude Shannon and Nathan Rochester from IBM, Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, and others. McCarthy proposed the term “artificial intelligence” which was accepted by the group. Continue reading