Automation Myth

Has been worked for 13 years, experience the transformation of the industry from semi auto until Industrial 4.0 & IoT (Internet of Things).

All these years, even until today, there is still a myth to general public, automation is to replace human and human will lose job due to automation.

But I would said in this world, no matter is humans, animals or things, it will be replaced if there is no improvement or evolution of itself.

Why there is such myths in general public?

Few reason I would noticed:

First, from government, the way government to encourage industry for automation is by showing them how much labour cost can be reduce instead of how the society growth with automation.

Second, from education, the lack of understanding of the purpose and benefit of automation to general public that mislead them to think the automation will kill their future.

Third but not last, the ability of utilize the technology and proper guideline of the implementation that caused the implementation of automation become very costly and not effective, thus nobody willing to spend time to improve it.

So from all these finding, the most important points is to improve our education system so that general public can understood the purpose and benefit of automation. Then people who involve can collaborate to reduce the cost and difficulty in the implementation of automation.