Comments on: The Future is Here

By: Natella Isazada

Natella Isazada — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:29:36 +0000

In reply to melissa. I agree with you Melissa. Inequality is a big downside of these type of revolutions. The true success of Industry 4.0 would be determined by how well the changes are accepted across the borders.

By: Natella Isazada

Natella Isazada — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:43:46 +0000

In reply to Ron. The future is very exciting and indeed something new is happening every day. There are a lot of innovative people and innovative companies who support creativity and research.

By: Natella Isazada

Natella Isazada — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:41:58 +0000

In reply to Vanessa. Thank you for sharing Vanessa. I completely agree with you about the importance of developing our people skills, the main differentiator between the humans and robots in workplaces. In fact I don’t even believe that we should refer to this skill set as “soft”.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 06:59:52 +0000

Always interesting to read about what is happenning in the world of technology in the nearest future.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 05:17:30 +0000

Great article, thank you very much Natella and Dan! I would like to point out that in preparation for the era of full automation and digitization that’s being discussed here we should be emphasizing more the importance of improving our soft or people skills. This is especially true for the younger generations who are growing up with gadgets in their hands since earlier ages and who do not get to develop their interpersonal skills as much.

By: melissa

melissa — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:19:30 +0000

When it comes to the inequality as a downside of Industry 4.0, I believe the access to smart devices is only a tip of the iceberg. There is a lot more to say about the concentration of wealth and benefits in the hands of a small fraction of people and the growing gap between countries and continents.

By: Natella Isazada

Natella Isazada — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:58:58 +0000

In reply to K.Asgari. Hi K, thank you for the comment and you are most welcome!

By: K.Asgari

K.Asgari — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 15:10:06 +0000

A very informative post. Thank you, Dan! And thank you, Natella for inviting such an interesting guest.

By: Natella Isazada

Natella Isazada — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 04:16:09 +0000

In reply to Alan. Dear Alan, thank you very much for sharing your perspective on this subject. I am glad you share the techno-optimistic view. I believe this is the only way to go and it goes well with the Quality in Quality Out concept that I am promoting. We can choose to sit there and blame automation for job losses and other problems (which would be more along the lines of Garbage in Garbage out thinking), or we can choose to take action today and commit to better results for tomorrow - Quality in Quality out. Hope to hear from you again.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:17:39 +0000

I have witnessed job cuts as the consequences of automation and digitization of the economy. And I know that with time more and more fields will be affected by this tendency. However I choose to remain techno-optimistic as they say. There are things we can do – as experts in our fields we should remain ahead of the game by furthering our knowledge and advancing our skills on-goingly. And as managers and leaders we should focus on creating the learning environments for our teams where they can constantly grow and develop themselves instead of stagnating and becoming an easy target for replacement with machines.