The future requires our accepting AI and technological change
Posted By RichC on November 8, 2025
In keeping with yesterday’s “a day behind” theme, the Tech Friday post for this week will be “a day late.” Instead of on Friday … it will be on Saturday this week; I’ll hopefully catch up and will try not to make this a trend. 😊
As the dawn of the automobile did to the buggy whip industry in the early 1900s, aviation to traveling by boat or train, and both computers and telecommunications in the later half of the 20th century for business … careers and businesses are always changing to become more productive and competitive. Most of us have lived to see what the Internet did during our lifetimes, whether we are young or old; I sure did being in the printing and publishing industry!
We all saw, and are seeing, the opportunity to be more efficient and productive through technology. I would be hard pressed to argue artificial intelligence, automation and robotics is not going to have a similar impact (if not more) than technological changes in the past 50 or 100 years.
Interestingly, Microsoft Research has picked the to the top 40 jobs most exposed to AI change. For the good or bad, we will all be affected, be it to be personally more efficient, or seeing a chosen career displaced. If we don’t adapt, we’ll find ourselves left behind … as happened with an unwillingness to learn to use computers for my father and father-in-law. They were not alone and it disadvantaged many from the Greatest Generation who were unwilling to keep learning.
Hopefully my recognizing this will force me to at least try to 
keep learning. How about you?
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