As technology advances, more jobs are being automated.  More job tasks are being performed by automatons or robots, also known as bots.  Examples include:

>  Robots improve the accuracy and quality of welds in a car’s body

>  Apps emerge to perform most of the tasks of a hotel’s front-desk staff

>  Robots improve the precision of surgeons

>  Commercial pilots ride along to back up the computer as it flies the plane

>  GPS guides machines across farmers’ fields

>  Driver-less cars may displace taxi drivers

>  And the list gets longer as technology advances

If you’re afraid that you might be replaced by a computer,

then you probably can be, and should be.

– William H. Bossert, Harvard computer science professor

> A first way you can bot-proof your career is by directing it to that which increases human contact, such as demanding creative problem solving, social collaboration, the ability to make moral judgments, and other human interactions.

> A second way is identify those job tasks that digital technology can’t do, such as human interaction, technical communication, persuading, initiative, supervising, and others.  For example, commercial airline pilots have learned the skill of supervising automation.

> A third way is to keep learning.  We must learn how to learn, unlearn, and relearn.  When we get better at learning, we get better at mastering new skills.   (See Learning on the Job lesson for more information.)  Let’s leave the robots to do what they do best – everything we don’t want to do.