I will say it again, based on my experience working in many of these fields and knowing the speed of mass technological deployment, adaptation and integration numerous changes into daily lives, it will literally take decades. Even when they are fully implemented, in most democracies and market-oriented economies, there will be at least a decade where the holdouts from such technological advancements can still live reasonably comfortable without adaptation of such as advancements. Realistically, anyone who has already reached adulthood and is currently in the workforce will not be severely impact by any of this. Yes, you will likely need to learn to use some of these tools. Yes, your field may lose jobs from these advancements. Yes, you may even lose your job from such advancements. However, at this stage, you will likely get away with learning only surface level/superficial knowledge about these tools and do just fine. Yes, your field may be lose jobs and you may need to find a new job at some point, however, due to the lack of uniformity globally regarding protocol, ethics and direction among other issues, the schools are not training their students well enough to really replace you in that regard. You will likely have more advantage in the field learning these things than the students in the career pipeline.
There are just too many kinks to be worked out. Humans have yet to master many of the more critical issues like the human brain, equitably distribute wealth and work in light of major technological advances, creating unlimited energy and water, creating unlimited amount of food, artificial womb births among other things to really teach the AI/robots/whatever to replace humans never mind colonize other planets in most people’s lifetimes at this moment. At this point, learning the basics of coding and a major AI application likely will be enough of a basis to adapt further if one chooses to and need to. Economic priorities in this day and age often dictation the direction and speed of technological deployments. Based on the current economic model, people need to be gainfully employed in order to spend. If no one can afford to buy anything, what is the point of making a whole bunch of stuff that no one can afford to buy? Conversely if everyone gets a universal basic income distribution, what motivation do people have to contribute to society? When the majority of people have too much time on their hands, they may self-actualize to a degree that some people may not like……I doubt that is what everyone wants to see when the infrastructure to defuse such social contract related pressures can not be easily, systematically defused.
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Here is what I previously wrote regarding this and similar topic(s).
“The biggest issue that will prevent any of that from truly replacing human beings is ethics. Yes, current technology has technological limitations on the human nuanced nitty gritty actions. Yes, decision makers need to ensure the transition stage is not sudden but rather gradual to prevent societal issues. The ethics issue is real because ethics is a code of conduct that make the human society rule based and not a free for all. That means in free, democratic societies it has to consider the interest of all equally or risk social upheaval while in less free and democratic societies it has to consider risks to the ruling class from the masses. There are many restrictions on AI today due to ethical reasons that can make asking AI to provide information from analyzed data on real statistics like life saving truth such as which neighborhood and demographics to avoid from a risk probability standpoint virtually impossible to find. Yet those are the things what AI can be the most useful: to provide heartless cold truth most humans are unable to say out loud due to social contract reasons living in Western societies. If such things are confronted face-on, like putting someone or a demographic group on a performance improvement plan (PIP), then true societal evolutionary stage will occur and those that don’t comply, like being on a PIP, will eventually be asked to leave. That is what MEI, meritocracy based diversity should be all about. Some people will say, it is a free country with no prevalent exit bans, if you don’t like it, you are welcome to move to the country mentioned in point number one. You may just end up enjoying the amount of freedom, common wealth/prosperity, mental hospital/jail stays where they tube feed you an unlimited amount of schizophrenic medicine while electro-shock your brains for saying “crazy things” while also “borrowing your organs” and the unlimited amount free speech and “exercise through labor and rehabilitation” they say you can exercise and enjoy over there while your family and friends frantically looking for you only to also be enjoying the same thing if they were looking for you if they lived there as well….XD
The humanoid robots, AI and automation trend will likely continue to progress rapidly in the coming years. It is however not as scary as it seems from a job security standpoint for most people in the workforce now at least for workers in the US. The US is a consumer oriented economy with consumer spending being one of its largest drivers of economic growth. If a large swath of workers lose their jobs, there would be no one to sell the products to. The rest of the world also heavily depend on the US for consumption due to its lucrative marketplace. Privacy, safety and other elements that affect the human experience is also important in America hence any technological advanced implemented at scale will likely have to clear those hurdles as well. Automation has been happening for years. What basically ended happening there was productivity per worker went up, prices per unit went down, worker wage went up, average per capita consumption went up, invention went up because people have more time to think and experiment and Americans are able to consume more than ever. I foresee humanoid robots, with the exception of ethics and safety concerns, will likely help fulfill the needs of people. AI is already helping people increase productivity, however, it is still years away from being sophisticated enough to AIoT (artificial intelligence if things) to control everything.
Space exploration was likely the dream of everyone when they were little. Space doesn’t have to mean outer space, it could just mean discovering new places. The biggest mysteries for the human race are probably where are we really from, can we live forever, how we got here, are there other hospitable planets like Earth for humans and are there others like other in the universe. Many of these questions will probably take generations to answer, however, the age of space exploration will likely last for centuries. The biggest takeaway from that is we have to think about things from a galactical standpoint not just earthly. For example, are precious metals still worth hoarding when there are tons of that in other space locations or can we live longer on other planets. On the contrary, if more cultures are found, cultural relics like collectible cards may be worth a lot more due to curiosity and overall a bigger market for such items. Perspectives on life will likely also change which will cause consumption patterns to change due to influence of new cultures and state of being.”