The industrial revolution and further technological development have brought much prosperity. At the same time many people and professionals were victims. Thus milk men suffered the refrigerator, peel farmers of the trucks and lantern pitchforks of the electricity network. Now there are the block chain, mobile Internet, Internet of Things, 3D printers, artificial intelligence and robots - just to name a few. All these inventions go sectors and professions put on their heads. So here my prediction of 20 professionals who hardly will exist in 20 years. Good news for Rotterdam Telegraph readers, maybe less good news for you as a marketer.
1. Truckers
Thanks to artificial intelligence may soon lorries driving in columns in succession. They can send themselves gases, brakes and still make better ethical decisions. Nor does the software looks secretly on his phone while driving, it does not get tired and do not have to rush for supper. So this can not only cheaper, but also much safer.
2. Mortgage Advisors
Advice on a mortgage or other type of loan can be good using artificial intelligence. The legislation and regulations, after all, are fixed. Enter your wishes and the perfect advice will roll out immediately. Saves just 1,500 euros for a home buyer.
3. Notaries and accountants
Thanks to the block chain technology may soon every transaction are recorded decentralized. The Ethereum-block chain shows that making smart appointments: only make money if it meets certain conditions. Notaries and accounts will thus be redundant. also saves a lot of money when buying a house.
4. boiler engineers
The Groningen gas valve is continuously turned off and new houses are rarely built a gas pipeline. It's a matter of time before we are all going to heat pumps, solar panels and other forms of renewable energy. we are no longer dependent on Putin and Saudi Arabia.
5. Nurses
Really sisters will not disappear, but the bulk of the care of our elderly can be captured by robots. For the elderly, this is probably even finer; it feels a lot less humiliating when a robot helps you get up from the toilet or pull out your stockings, then when a man does.
Human-to-human interactions, of course, remain very fine, so sisters can be used mainly for the social aspect of care. Anyone who has been in a nursing home, will be thrilled with this.
6. Bouncers
No discrimination on the door; no aggressive begging for a tip afterwards but the pub quickly and ruthlessly removed by strong, by the bartender operated drones in the case of two fighting drunks. Sounds good, right?
7. Telemarketers
Already working telemarketers with predefined scripts. Phone products sales may therefore soon be done just as well by smart software programs. Other sales occupations will be more important. After all, in a land of robots, people are scarce. And scarcity increases value.
8. Chinese dockworkers
3D printing is becoming cheaper. Wages in China are rising and manufacturing there is so expensive. In short, it's getting more wages to achieve the production of goods back to our own country.
9. Bridge Guardians
Thanks to the Internet of Things boats will soon be able to communicate wirelessly with bridges. As a result, these bridges know that there are boats are waiting, and they can open and close itself when this the best possible - also taking into account the number of passing cars that is being measured at that time.
10. Taxi drivers
The demise of taxi drivers can come from multiple angles. Firstly, the proportion economy: services like Uber let people share their cars with others, for a much lower cost than a taxi driver - who is also the time that he has been waiting to be paid by a customer. In addition, as with the trucks, cars with artificial intelligent chugging better, smarter and safer man.
11. Economists
Rarely economists predict correctly the economy. None provided the greatest financial crisis of the last eighty years. Automated data collection is artificial intelligence anyway not do worse these predictions.
12. Translators
Google Trans Let and similar services are improving. Twenty years are expected to be all the online translation services of such a high level that official translators will be largely redundant.
13. Reporters
It will not be long before software will be able to retell the course of a football match on the basis of data. Rotterdam for Telegraph readers might be so fine: objectivity is guaranteed. If newspapers at that time, of course, exist.
14. Fair Traders
Man can not act as quickly as an artificial trader. The automated exchange trading is already happening on a large scale now. It's a matter of time before this share will rise to nearly 100 percent.
15. Ad Sellers
Google AdWords shows that sellers of ads are no longer needed. Paper newspapers and magazines will be sold less and advertisements herein therefore becoming less popular.
16. Radio DJs
Digital radio is increasingly taking the role of the old-fashioned radio on. Music based on your preferences from the past and ads based on your other behavior. If you still want to listen to news, you can always set up podcasts. Did that Giel Beelen on time seen.
17. Tax inspectors and other officials
Thanks to the block chain can be captured land registers; licenses are forgiven and paid benefits are defined and understood. This will make unnecessary a lot of work of officials.
18. Football Coaches
Using data from parties such as Opta, collection of exercises on YouTube and allow artificial intelligence to determine what is going well. And let simultaneously analyze perfect your technique. Robots shooting balls endlessly to you at the desired speed, height and difficulty. Now only the Pep-talk.
19. DTP
Thanks to endless a / b testing the software learns to design the best performing ads and create. No more discussions about corporate versus message.
20. Marketers
Yes you too. Once set up a self-learning marketing automation program and let it rip. The technicians and director joints occasionally create a new product and the software does the rest. Automatically generated texts, omni-channel, according to house style, without spelling mistakes and never "but we have so much to tell!" ...
And further
And we're not even talking about the professions that will change greatly because reducing or changing their mode of knowledge holder. Thanks to the Internet, consumers themselves, after all advance much faster and better information than was previously the case. Installers and architects for instance, will have to adjust to the new time.
Although this list for many people is a cause for the declaration of blind panic and speaking of shame, I believe that this is not necessary. We will simply have to adapt ourselves to the new reality. Less administrative and repetitive jobs and a greater focus on creative and social skills. Less crafts, more insights.
Also, there will, as always, new professions emerged. After all, who programs the robots? Who designs the new printers? Who 3D printing our products? And who makes the new apps? Man holds more free time and would therefore probably more to an amusement park. Who will work here?
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