Czech Republic: Distorted qualities

Integrated systems Czech Republic: Distorted qualities

17.10.2017Author / Editor: Roman Dvorak / Franziska Breunig

I have recently participated in several debates discussing what will people be doing if they will not be able to become professionally incorporated in modern firms with integrated 4.0 industry systems.

Recently much was said about how robots deprive people of work. Lots of research and expertises speak about the loss of many jobs. The price of robots decreases and their competence and efficiency increases, With people it is just the other way round – many labour skills and willingness to work decline and requirements on labour conditions and wages increasingly grow.
(Source: Deutsche Messe)

Two classes

I often heard such views that these “useless“ people will obtain social security benefits, minimum wages, or will care for the “competent“ ones. If therefore you will be lucky to belong to the community of experts in computers, robotics and automation and will hold the post of an enterprise manager, then such “useless“ people will wash your car, mow your garden, take care of your children and your dog, buy things for you, etc. This means that two classes will be formed – certain type of castes – the rich who have enough money but not enough time and the poor who have a lot of time but much less money. This is already a reality in some countries, e.g. in India, where such people live in hovels and slums, separated from the rest of the world by high fences and by the police. I detest this and absolutely disagree with it.

When I want experts to tell me what actually Industry 4.0 is, they begin to explain how things and people will be mutually interconnected. If I object to them that many things are already interconnected today, they speak about artificial intelligence, enormous amounts of data continually downloaded and administered in our smartphones and tablets and showing an extended reality, cooperation of robots and human beings or products of 3D printing. It is quite obvious that the steam engine or line production was great progress for mankind and that the internet and digitalization gradually interconnected and accelerated all realms. A characteristic of the industrial revolution was technology which dramatically raised the productivity of labour, many jobs were lost and people transferred into other spheres of labour – from agriculture, over industry to services. But all was, still is, and will be a question of mutual cooperation and partnership. For this reason we need empathy, heart, respect and confidence. This a new oncoming phase of development and here we will be searching for a higher sense of our activity, finding our new way and traces we would like to leave. And this is the essence of our revolutionary behaviour.

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