"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."
- Dean Kamen
I love the thought of innovation and how it can change our lives. But I also love the way the good people at Despair.com make us step back and think about what we are doing or saying.
Many years ago, there were more people employed delivering milk to your doorstep, building cars, typing up stock purchase orders, and cleaning your windshield at the gas pump. But innovation has pretty much done away with these and many other types of jobs.
I am not saying we should go back in time to the horse and carriage days with crank phones on the kitchen wall. But there is something to consider about moving ourselves, humans, forward in life.
We have to understand that many new technological advances can and do make much of what we get paid to do, irrelevant. And what that means is you need to be aware of it and to make changes in your life and career to remain relevant. More and more automation along with the advances in artificial intelligence, we as humans have to find other purposeful ways to stay engaged.
New innovations will also create new types of opportunities for jobs. You simply have to be willing to adapt and change in order to take advantage of those new opportunities.
One day you might be shaking the hand of an android, and not the smartphone kind. But then again, maybe it will be.
Stay inspired my friends!
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