they will have to shift focus away from training students for dying professions and toward building their knowledge in fields that a postwork society will actually need: arts, literature, politics, religion, and ethics.вЂќ Such a take on the future world may have some merit, but seems a bit apocalyptic. Jonathan Malesic goes as far as envisioning a world without work: вЂњIf universities are to prepare people for a world without work, then. How have advocates of the humanities responded to these robot crises? By emphasizing the inability for robots to replace human emotion, experience, and intelligence-in short, their humanity. Holzer suggests that with the increase of minimum wage to $15 dollars, вЂњfast-food workers might be more easily replaced by robots.вЂќ In May 2015, Kathleen Elkins of Business Insider reported that вЂњExperts predict robots will take over 30% of our jobs by 2025-and white-collar jobs arenвЂ™t immune.вЂќ Harry J. This is not the only ominous tale of a robot takeover. вЂEventually,вЂ™ Ford says, вЂthe wolf does show up.вЂ™вЂќ He acknowledges вЂthere have been a lot of false alarmsвЂ™ but likens his camp to the little boy who cried wolf. However, the article ends with these ominous words: вЂњIn spite of barriers like these, Martin Ford believes the robot age is inevitable. He also articulates that one of the reasons robots have not replaced us is the barriers to eliminating human jobs, including the existence of unions and work contracts.

Cole Stangler, author of the article, shows how the workforce will shift its jobs as the world becomes more technologically advanced, yet he acknowledges the ancient debate behind the roboticizing world and notes that we still do not exist in a world run by robots. He states that the work that was once done by seven people is now controlled by one who pushes buttons on a box. Wright discussed his shifting job as a locomotive engineer. Now, while still seemingly a stretch, it doesnвЂ™t quite hold the same level of outlandishness as before. The threat of robots overtaking the workforce and making humans superfluous would seem ludicrous decades ago.

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