Should Amazon’s Robotization Concern Other Industries?

Although this question might sound outdated, it is a growing concern and a factor of concern for many people and governments. Since the Industrial revolution back in the 18th century, technological development brought fears regarding the loss of traditional jobs as many new discoveries abolish the need for some services.

Currently, we see that some of the giants of the industry such as Amazon are undergoing ongoing changes in automatization and robotization.

We see that, for example, last Christmas Amazon hired 20 K fewer workers due to the use of robots.

The answer is uncertain, in the times of the industrial revolution, the evolution of industry was able to generate more work, and although some workers lost their jobs, there was an increase in production, this made the industrial revolution a key point in our history and a major improver of the quality of life. On the same topic, the high-tech revolution was able to introduce a faster and more efficient supply of products around the world as well as easier monitoring of the quality of products. Having said that, we can see many downsides to this revolution even in the quality of products, I will give a very easy example:

In the clothing sector, automatization, globalization, and computerization have been able to drop the prices of clothing to very low prices. The quality dropped dramatically as well, we can say today that the industry failed to deliver quality, at the same time, many people lost their profession as a result of this process as they couldn’t compete with giant industry companies.

Before the recent high-tech evolution took place, changes happened, phones replaced mail, for example, plains replaced ships and computers replaced big amounts of files and papers. But all of these changes happened at a slow pace, people have been warned, and accordingly, people acquired new skills and find new jobs in other fields.

The baby’s name is CAT (Computer-assisted translation) tool, this scary large name sounds confusing, so let me try to simplify it for you, what are the goals of CAT tools?

B- efficient translation

C-Cheaper translation

D-Quality translation