<p>Prompt: Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better?</p>
<p>Imagine two horses having a conversation sometimes around 1910. One says to the other - “have you heard about this recent invention, cars?”, and the second horse answers - “I think it is marvellous, it will make our lives so much easier now that there is a machine that can do our work for us”. Little did the second horse know that today, a hundred years later, the worldwide horse population is only about 5% of the horse population in 1910. The reason, as we all know, is because the same changes that made horses’ lives easier in 1910 made horses completely redundant.</p>
<p>The truth, which many people refuse to acknowledge, is that humans today are in the same situation as were the horses in 1910. The changes and the technological advances that had immensly improved our quality of life will, at some point in the not so distant future, backfire. We the humans will no longer be neccessary; for every thing a human can do today, there will be a robot who can do the same task undeniably better. This phenomenon was already named - we are on the brink of The Robotic Revolution, or the automatation of jobs.</p>
<p>One example for robots already actively replacing human workers is available at some supermarkets in several developed countries. I am certain most of us had seen and used those robots ourselves; I am refering, of course, to the cashier machines. Those - although relatively simple - robots are not only more efficient but also considerable cheaper than human workers. As we will move forward more and more low-skilled workers will find themselves unable to find any kind of work - why would an employer hire a human when he can have a robot? The most optimistic economists predict that 45% of workers will be unemployed! That will cause a total financial and social meltdown.</p>
<p>Another example, this time of a more advanced robot, is IBM’s famous robot Watson. Although we all now him from Jeopardy, Watson is actually designed to be something else - a doctor. IBM is working to make Watson a better doctor than any human can possibly be. What will happen then, when even the high-skilled workers will find themselves without jobs?</p>
<p>If we will not revolutionizad the basics on which our society is built on, we are no doubt are headed toward a calamity. Those unstoppable changes will destroy our world as we know it. Some day there will be ads looking for workers that say - “humans need not apply”.</p>
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<p>Note: I typed it as I wrote it with all the mistakes (including where I referred to a robot as a ‘he’…). I took a chance and wrote a creative essay rather than following the formula, and I would like to know if you think it had paid off. Credit to CGP Grey for inspiration.</p>