• Question: Do you feel like technology will ever replace you?

    Asked by anon-196023 to Sebastian, Paddy, Lee, Jennifer, Fiona, Eleanor on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sebastian Cosgrove

      Sebastian Cosgrove answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      As technology develops we actually learn how to apply it in more useful ways. It has been feared for hundreds of years that technology will replace human jobs, but in fact quite the opposite has happened, in that new industries are created and this leads to more than jobs because of it. In an ideal world, we will use technology to replace jobs that don’t require brain power and leave humans to what they are much better at – being creative!

    • Photo: Paddy Sudhakar

      Paddy Sudhakar answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I dont think technology can fully replace human intervention and involvement. There are emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning which bring in a lot of not only automation but also intelligence. Although these bring a lot of advantages to the table, it is only fair to say that technology cannot fully replace human expertise

    • Photo: Fiona Scott

      Fiona Scott answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      In terms of my skills as a synthetic chemist, definitely! Check out the ChemPuter that can currently do most of what I do in a typical day in the lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvEkm7ZBKSc

      Technology can’t replace the creativity required to work out a problem though so I think the world will always need scientists!

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