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Report Explores Jobs in Relation to Technology by 2030

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Based on a report recently issued by Dell Technologies, by 2030 every organization will be a technology organization. Subsequently, they recommend that businesses need to begin to plan today to future-proof their workforce and their infrastructure. Led by the Institute for the Future (IFTF), the research was completed in conjunction with 20 business, academic, and technology experts worldwide. Looking at how emerging technologies such as augmented reality, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and virtual reality will transform our lives. The report, which was titled “The Next Era of Human-Machine Partnerships,” looks at how the workforce will operate over the course of the next 10 years. It also recommends insight on how both business and their consumers can plan and prepare for a society that finds itself in a state of constant change.

Exploring the New Era of Man in Relation to Machine: Partnering for 2030

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Forecasting that massive software advancement, emerging technologies, and large data and processing power will reshape the way we live, the report identifies that society will soon be entering into a new phase with respect to the way it relates to machines specifically characterized by such things as:

  • Efficiency and capacity
  • Technology working as an extension of people
  • Technology completing effective employee “matchmaking” with appropriate jobs worldwide
  • Responsive learning, whereby populations learn “in the moment” and at the pace of change

Other report highlights included the concept that by 2030 integrated, personalized artificial intelligence (AI) assistants will be able to support far more than today’s assistants do, being both predictive and automated. In that same vein, however, it identified that technology will change the process of finding work as opposed to replacing existing workers. Work will take the shape and concept as a series of tasks as opposed to a place to go. And finally, an estimated 85 percent of employment in 2030 will be jobs that haven’t even been invented yet.

Exploring the New Era of Man in Relation to Machine: Partnering for 2030

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Commissioning the study to assist companies to plan for an ever-changing business world and future, Dell Technologies cited through its Digital Transformation Index that 52 percent of senior decision makers in 16 countries have noted experiencing significant disruption in their respective industries resulting from digital technologies. Further to that, the belief by almost half of these businesses is that there’s a possibility they may become obsolete within the short term.

Exploring the New Era of Man in Relation to Machine: Partnering for 2030

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“Never before has the industry experienced so much disruption. The pace of change is very real, and we’re now in a do-or-die landscape. To leap ahead in the era of human-machine partnerships, every business will need to be a digital business, with software at its core. But organizations will need to move fast and build capacity in their machines, ready their infrastructure and enable their workforce in order to power this change,” said Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer for Dell.

In tandem, a statement by Rachel Maguire, research director for the IFTF recognized, “We’ve been exposed to two extreme perspectives about machines and the future: the anxiety-driven issue of technological unemployment or the over optimistic view that technology will cure all our social and environmental ills. Instead, we need to focus on what the new relationship between technology and people could look like and how we can prepare accordingly. If we engage in the hard work of empowering human-machine partnerships to succeed, their impact on society will enrich us all.” The report and its findings can be found at the link provided here, and recognizes quite the gap between the days of using a Texas Instruments solar-powered calculator in grade seven math class and the future of doing business.

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