Blog 1: The future with technology, AI, and software

The future is out there in the unknow space. We don’t really know what will happen but one thing is for sure, our future will be influenced by the technology. Looking 30 years back most people were not aware of how the internet and computers would be a normal part of our lives as it is today. But some people in the tech business has an idea of what the future could look like in 30 years ahead. One of the things almost everyone in the article “What will tech look like in 2039” agrees on is that Artificial Intelligent (AI) will be a bigger part of everyone’s lives in the future. Rajen Sheth compares what AI will do to our society with what the industrial revolution did in the 1800-century.

“The Industrial Revolution magnified the human's physical ability and made it so that you can actually build more capable products and replicate them at a faster rate. I think AI is the same for people's mental abilities”. [1]

The technology and the especially AI will not only influence our lives at home but especially at our jobs. The architectural field is one of places where technology and software now have replaced some of the jobs. Their work have become easier at some point, faster, and can secure more precision. A 3D printers can build a physical model quickly compared to a handcraft model. A digital model of buildings can make it easier to find collisions and change details in the buildings. Also rendering is used to create a presentable picture of the building which is a big part of winning an architectural competition and thereby get the project. This is just some of the examples of how software and technology influences a job field like the architects. [2]

With the influence of the technology in the working fields to develop peoples both mentally and physical  abilities, it will also mean that there is a greater need for people in the tech industry than ever before. Two-third of the Americans don’t have a four years degree and their jobs can be threaten be the technology. As written in the article “Are robots coming for your job? Eventually yes”:  “In 2030 up to a third of the Americans work force will have to switch to new occupations”. That is a huge challenge for the society. The college Holberton school in San Francisco has made an alternative school which can be a part of the solution for the challenge of getting more people in the tech industry. They have made a public-privat partnership which offers a two year college software engineering program without tuition. Instead, when the graduates get a job they will have to pay back the school 17 percent of their salary for three year. By this program they hope that it will be easier to attract students into the tech business and thereby be a part of the solution for the challenge of getting a third of the Americans work force to switch to the tech business and be prepared for the future in technology. [3]

References:

[1] Rob Marvin, "What tech will look like in 2039", PCMag, January 3 2019

[2]  Christine, "Software for architects: The must-have tool for the trade" http://smarterware.org/2018/11/software-for-architects-the-must-have-tools-of-the-trade/, November 12 2018
[3] Steve Lohr, "Are robots coming for your job? Eventually yes", New York Times, September 21 2018 

Comments on other blogpost:

Harvi Bhandal: 

I agree that it is very important that we need to have some principles like Google have developed to secure that the society benifits from using AI. It seems like it can be dangerous if we don't know how to use AI correct and If we don't have clear laws about it. I know from one of my friends in Denmark who wrote his master thesis at law school about AI, that it is a field which is not clear yet. I therefore think that is also a part of the tech future which has to be developed. 

Weiyi Tang:

I think there is a good point in how intelligent buildings in relation to the HVAC systems can be optimized to reduce the energy use and thereby be a part of the solution of the environmental challenges. It is the use stage of a building which contributes to the larges amount of CO2 emissions in the lifetime of the building. And as you said 40% of the greenhouse gasses is produced by buildings. So using less energy in buildings will have a huge impact on the total emission greenhouse gasses and thereby a huge impact of future of the earth.

Unknown - The future of sociology, databases, and networking: 

Very interesting blog post! One of the things that really comes into my mind is; what it will do to us, as human beings, if the internet is our only network. Will we then be lonely or is the network on the internet enough for us to satisfy our social needs. 
One of the other things that got me thinking, was the last part about that we don't need to hand in a job application ourselves but it will be send online. Will we then be jugde only by how we are writting and our behavior on the internet? We know how much a first impression can mean for us. So how will we look at eachother if the first impression comes from the internet or a database. Will we then be able to how people really are? I think that is also very interesting to think about in relation to sociology, databases and networking in the future.