Please enter your first association for the term: A great scientific discovery?

Dariusz Prokopowicz @Dariusz_Prokopowicz

11 November 2018 1 6K Report

Which of the various scientific discoveries or the development of new scientific theories, the creation of technical inventions that have contributed to accelerate the development of civilization, the development of a new generation of innovative technologies in a specific field of knowledge and applicable in a given sector of the economy, etc. belong to the most important in the context of civilization, including the economic development of the world?

Every now and then a specific technological revolution is made in the context of the technical development of civilization, which was often caused by a new, especially important invention thanks to which the acceleration of economic development in the national and supranational approach took place.

Appearing from time to time, the next generation of inventions changed the relationship between the application of particular types of production factors in the production processes and offering services.

Many times this concerned the relationship between the application of the human factor and its objectification through the use of machines and technical devices, or the replacement of human work by automated machines or, as it happens, recently, through the development of robotization.

In connection with this, the current question becomes: Will the development of robotization and computerization cause a significant increase in unemployment in the future?

These types of questions have appeared many times in every era of the technological and industrial revolution, the period of accelerating technological development. These types of questions have already appeared in the periods of increasing the scale of objectification, arming technical human labor since the processes of manufacturing goods in manufactories have transformed into mass production. This was the case during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, when the invention of the steam engine significantly accelerated the development of industry and mass production. Then, the introduction of tape production in various branches of mass production in the early twentieth century.

In the second half of the twentieth century, ie in the era of subsequent stages of mechanization, automation, then the computerization of the production of many mass goods, this question appears again. Through these periods of technological progress, national economies have been transforming structurally from agricultural, industrial to modern-day domination of services. At the same time, the importance of new generation factors, which include information, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, was gradually growing. Some branches of industry were shrinking, others were growing in the whole production of goods in the economy.

At the same time, new professions, professions and specializations of human work were created, related to information, IT, analytical and technological services related to the development of new fields of knowledge and technology. So the earlier fears about the lack of work for people in connection with the technical progress that took place over the last several hundred years turned out to be essentially exaggerated.

However, currently the same questions reappear: Can the development of robotization and computerization cause a significant rise in unemployment in the future? If such questions arise, then we are dealing with another era of technical progress or another technological revolution. The attributes of this revolution are also increasingly added to the development of new online media, computerized computing techniques, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Big Data, etc. in the applications of such areas of knowledge and science as biotechnology, metrology, ecology, energy, communication, medicine and many other fields of life science and new tech.