TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN BEINGS

By Sana Bagersh

The future points to a tech-driven world with less need for manual human labor. This is awakening a need for the reinvention of the employee, to remain relevant and needed through upskilling into new areas of the economy.

We are all in uncharted territory and have a small glimpse of what the future holds, but innovation and technology will light our way forward.

With the increased adoption of automation and AI, there will be growing displacement of people by machines which will necessitate new skills for humans in a transformed world economy.

Change has to happen across the board, and not just within large tech giants and industrial complexes. Rather every effort must be made to ensure that those living outside these ecosystems should not be left behind and disconnected from the “innovation elite.”

To build more resilient communities, the public sector will need to better engage with their diverse publics and facilitate the necessary upskilling of people and the corresponding upgrading of systems.

For public sector entities, this means broadening its empathy capacities to reach out and understand the needs and desires of people, both today and tomorrow. They can do this by giving people an opportunity to engage and by developing solutions that help them adapt smoothly without losing their sense of identity and belonging. This would include extending meaningful work for fair compensation to safeguard and deliver social equity, prosperity, and stability.