The World Is Becoming Short Of Manual Labour
Judy Ramsook
January 03, 2006
With all the high tech gadgets available in the world today, it has indeed become an easier time in which to live and work. It was easier for our parents than our grandparents, it’s now easier for us as well and will be even easier for generations to come.
We no longer have to do things the hard way. For every alternative there seems to be another alternative. We have gone from standard vehicle transmissions to automatic and with the birth of the computer age came advances in many related gadgets and tools.
Things to make our lives easier such as: fax machines, internet, email, instant messaging, cellular telephone technology and many more items that are still in the works as we live from day to day.
Even the avid music listener has it easier and more convenient. We have gone from the transistor radio to walkman to mp3 players to Ipods and as we take a look at some of these gadgets that we think we could never live without, will one stop and wonder if the world will soon be short of manual labour?
Mostly everyone we know wants to sit behind a desk at some nine to five kind of job, and if this is a growing trend, will mankind eventually have to invent machines that can perform certain laborious tasks?
Tasks such as mowing the lawn, working the farm even certain house cleaning chores and other tasks that are too complex for any machine to handle.
Who in many generations to come will want to perform such arduous tasks when they have grown so accustomed to sitting behind a desk with a computer before them?
The truth of the matter is, no one wants to work hard anymore. With the world becoming more and more fast paced and easy, one can only wonder where the future generations will take it.
Ultimately, this wide expanse of Earth we all call home today, will end up in their hands, the hands of those who have been growing up and will continue to grow up in the computer age.
Those alive today will not be around to see what those who come after us will do to preserve what generations before them worked so hard to maintain.
It should be interesting to see what future generations will do if hardly anyone wants to see beads of perspiration appear on his hands.
We no longer have to do things the hard way. For every alternative there seems to be another alternative. We have gone from standard vehicle transmissions to automatic and with the birth of the computer age came advances in many related gadgets and tools.
Things to make our lives easier such as: fax machines, internet, email, instant messaging, cellular telephone technology and many more items that are still in the works as we live from day to day.
Even the avid music listener has it easier and more convenient. We have gone from the transistor radio to walkman to mp3 players to Ipods and as we take a look at some of these gadgets that we think we could never live without, will one stop and wonder if the world will soon be short of manual labour?
Mostly everyone we know wants to sit behind a desk at some nine to five kind of job, and if this is a growing trend, will mankind eventually have to invent machines that can perform certain laborious tasks?
Tasks such as mowing the lawn, working the farm even certain house cleaning chores and other tasks that are too complex for any machine to handle.
Who in many generations to come will want to perform such arduous tasks when they have grown so accustomed to sitting behind a desk with a computer before them?
The truth of the matter is, no one wants to work hard anymore. With the world becoming more and more fast paced and easy, one can only wonder where the future generations will take it.
Ultimately, this wide expanse of Earth we all call home today, will end up in their hands, the hands of those who have been growing up and will continue to grow up in the computer age.
Those alive today will not be around to see what those who come after us will do to preserve what generations before them worked so hard to maintain.
It should be interesting to see what future generations will do if hardly anyone wants to see beads of perspiration appear on his hands.
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