The document explores the impact of automation and robotics on the workforce, emphasizing the need to redefine the relationship between humans and machines. It suggests that while technology can enhance efficiency, it also poses risks such as technological unemployment and a loss of human relevance. The document encourages a balance between embracing technology and maintaining human qualities such as empathy, purpose, and trust.

1. What if …robots replaced the world’s workforce?
Redefining the relationship
between man and machine
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Humanity will change more in the next 20
years than in the previous 300 years

3. When
Source: Ray Kurzweil

4. #HellVen

5. Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard
Predictive analytics, anticipatory services, digital assistants #hellven
Image: Minority Report The Movie

6. Software that thinks like ‘like a human’: attaining super-intelligence?

7. http://frankdiana.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/the-smart-home/
Exponential digitization, automation, virtualization and robotization: from media
to logistics, transportation, telecom, utilities, financial services, government…
Via Peter Diamandis

9. Technological unemployment: this time, it’s real (and exponential)

11. Intelligent Assistance
Augmentation
Amplification

12. Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard
But would ubiquitous ‘digital assistants’ eventually render us helpless, clueless and useless?

13. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/538401/who-will-own-the-robots/
The future of work: will we ride on-top of technology or be crushed by it?

14. http://www.explainingthefuture.com/singularity.html

15. ‘Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse’

16. ‘Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse’

17. Human existence is a lot more than this

18. Human existence is a lot more than this

19. Stay clear of reductionism based on technology centrism

20. 5-10% ? 100%
A virtual approximation is interesting and useful yet incomplete by definition

21. Consciousness ? Embodiment?
Awareness? Sentience? Purpose?

23. Technology does not have ethics. But every good business does.
Embrace but then transcend technology.
Purpose, relevance, relationships, brand & trust eat algorithms for breakfast!

24. Everything that can be automated… will be. Everything else will explode in value.
Therefore, automate and make things efficient - but don’t stop there!

25. Beware of ‘Machine Thinking’

26. Consider the unintended consequences

27. Consider the unintended consequences

28. Focus on understanding, synthesis, empathy, stories and experiences

29. Focus on understanding, synthesis, empathy, stories and experiences

30. “A Columbia University
study suggested that with a
fleet of just 9,000
autonomous cars, Uber
could replace every taxi
cab in New York City, and
that passengers would
wait an average of 36
seconds for a ride that
costs about $0.50 per mile”
Most things that are disrupted (i.e. made faster, easier, cheaper or more
efficient) by technology will also need to be re-constructed to retain humanityDon’t stop with disruption. Construct new ecosystems.

31. Is Apple showing the way? Context + Curation + Storytelling based on human ingenuity
http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/15/apple-news-curation-editors/

32. Technology
Algorithms
Software
Cloud
Machines
Screens
‘Humarithms’
Trust
Embodiment
Serendipity
Relationships
Emotions
Mystery
Anonymity
Awareness
AI / IA
Balance (wo)man and machine

33. Machines are for answers, humans are for questions (Kevin Kelly)
Ask why and who, not (just) how

34. http://frankdiana.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/the-smart-home/
Stick with the Human Imperative even if looks less ‘efficient’

35. Thanks for your attention!
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