Three years ago we wrote an article about the professions that are dying out and will be replaced by technology in the next decade and we asked which professions will surely become extinct in the next decade! Everything seems different in 2020, also because of the corona virus! Will certain professions die out even faster?!
We are in an age of extraordinary progress. Every 10 years, due to progress, society changes in the same way that it changed in 100 years. This is also why the world will change fundamentally in the next 10 years. Primarily due to the extraordinary globalization of services, trade and media, but actually mostly due to the emergence of artificial intelligence, which will be integrated into everyday life. It will change the world the way electricity once did. However, some occupations, which could still be naively concluded to be promising, will disappear completely within 10 years.
Maybe not all jobs are at risk, but the range of jobs will shrink so much that there will only be room for the best in their field. It is predicted to disappear within the next 20 years 70 to 90 percent of existing occupations. These will be replaced by new occupations, but certainly not to a sufficient extent to replace all lost jobs. In any case, an extraordinary social change and transition to a new society will be necessary. Universal personal income will become a necessity of social change. In any case, the profession of journalist, driver, farmer, postal worker, translator, factory worker, lawyer will disappear very quickly... Certain industries will completely disappear or be transformed in a completely new direction. All business concepts of the 20th century will be fundamentally changed in the 21st century - and most of them will disappear forever. Check below how likely it is that your profession or the entire industry you work in will also disappear.
1. Driver
Autonomous vehicles will completely destroy the driver's profession in 2027. And it is an essential question, will you be able to drive the car still need a driver's license. Technology pioneered in the automotive industry, it always takes about a decade, to go into mass use. This was the case with all solutions such as airbags, seat belts, ABS. It is necessary to realize that the technological development in recent years has been exponential - every 10 years represents 100 years of development. This means that society and technologies are developing faster and faster. Therefore, we can reasonably expect that in 2027 the majority of new vehicles will have to be autonomous. Mainly because of safety, which will be several times higher in these types of vehicles.
For normal vehicles or old-timers will be given high insurance premiums. Only the wealthy will be able to afford them. This will also change the automobile insurance industry, which can also disappear in this segment as a result. Currently, there is one accident on 100,000 kilometers, and with autonomous driving, the level of accidents will drop to one accident per 10 million kilometers. That will be saved millions of lives, which we lose on the roads every year.
2. A lawyer
In America young lawyers it is already more difficult for them to get a job, which is also why we can assume that the profession of lawyer of the year 2027 will no longer be promising or rather, it will lose its current charm. He was supposed to replace him IBM's legal advisor Watson, who is already consulting with 90% accuracy, when you ask him a legal question. Compared to a human who answers the same question with only 70% accuracy.
Profession classical jurist, a lawyer and possibly the judge at first instance will be nullified. Otherwise, it will not completely disappear, but it will transform into different forms.
3. A politician
The profession of politician will not completely die out in the next 10 years, but will be radically transformed. The time is coming when it will the need for faster decisions increasingly important. Also because of the dramatic changes in society that will be caused by development itself. The need for quick and professional strategic decisions will force us to introduce them e-democracy in more than 10 years. This kind of electronic format will enable us to make decisions faster than before. In 2027 all citizens living in modern democracies will definitely vote and co-decide on political issues and visions of the country. Of course, electronically with our personal certificate, which we already use for banking.
Number of politicians will thus be limited and concretely reduced, as the responsibility for joint decisions will be left to active voters through electronic methods for co-decision and voting. Imagine that experts from a certain field could create and vote for certain legislation. Then, in all probability, we would not have laws that no one really understands and everyone interprets in their own way. Technological progress and drastic changes in society will concretely change politics and thus politics.
4. Accountant
Accountant profession is doomed to absolute failure, because accounting systems standardize with the introduction of e-invoices to such an extent that it is only a matter of time before we get a state program solution modeled after the tax offices for keeping business records of legal entities and other economic forms (sp). As a result, automatic posting of all business events between companies. This would allow the state to control financial flows, which in turn means that it would know at any moment how the companies are doing. What is their profit and loss account etc.
This data could be the basis for guidance economic and political decisions for the future and reducing undeclared work and automatic increase in state revenues on account of collected taxes. Automation and thus the introduction of control with artificial intelligence tools in this area is an absolute and undeniable necessity for the progress of the country and a primary area in which every country should invest. Especially the one who wants to collect taxes efficiently. This is also why the classic profession of bookkeeper and accountant will no longer be needed.
5. Assembly line worker
Occupation of worker for conveyor belts are already being replaced by a robot. An excellent proof is the vehicle factory Tesla GigaFactory, where there are workers only for a sample and whose plan is to take years 2025 workers is no longer hiring, as all work will be done by robots.
This type of production will naturally move to other industries as well.
6. Profession of saleswoman or sales consultant
Have you noticed the self-service checkouts? These are the first signs that the trade will change completely in the coming years. Amazon recently presented the Amazon Go project, and we believe that this is how all stores that will still operate in physical form will look in the future. This means that they will be physically present in the room and not virtual.
The store's vision of the future is that purchases will be made in virtual reality or augmented reality. You will open the refrigerator and the artificial intelligence of the shopping program will physically display the products that would be in should have been to the refrigerator and they are lacking or absent. All by analyzing your shopping habits in the past. By virtually pressing your finger on the product, you will order the product from the selected retailer. Of course, it will deliver the chosen one autonomous vehicle or drone right to your home.
7. Road worker and construction worker
Changed technological methods of construction and machines that will be managed by artificial intelligence will be in the following 10 years have completely changed the construction industry. Thus, manual workers will no longer be needed, as he will take over their work a smart construction machine. There will be construction faster and more efficient, as it will be robotic. This means that the machines will be able to work continuously 24 hours a day. Due to the new materials, the construction will also be more resistant to the test of time, and thus also cheaper to maintain. Can you imagine a road infrastructure that requires less or almost no maintenance and even produces electricity?!
8. University professor, teacher
Virtual reality will allow to attend a lecture in any lecture hall in the world. This means that there will be access to quality content and content in contact with time to spare.
It is assumed that there will be such content provided by super-associates among professors, while there will be no more room for mediocre and boring ones. Learning will change radically. Data memorization will no longer be a priority, but will come first creative use of various types of information. The first steps towards a thorough renovation of the school system have been initiated by Finland, which will abolish the curriculum in primary schools from 2018. This means that children will learn to learn for life. The world will never be the same again. This is also why we must always be able to change. This is also why the profession of an average teacher will be or university professor disappeared. But not entirely. People will still be an inspiration, but only as a creative extension of learning.
9. Profession of journalist, proofreader and translator
The profession of journalist in its current form will completely disappear in less than 10 years. Mainly because of the globalization of the media landscape, which will completely erase the need for "long-tail” media, and especially due to the progress of simultaneous translation technologies. This means you will be able to read the article on any medium in your own language. Thus, only the best journalists will remain, who as producers will succeed in creating quality content. In other words, these journalists will become influencers. They will enter the media with their content bad guys, such as large networks BBC, CNN … Google publicly announced that it activated artificial intelligence for Google Translate in late 2016 (Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT)) and that we can expect significant progress in translations until the end of 2017.
Although it still seems that Google does not understand all the contexts of translations, but translations are becoming more and more useful recently and the time is not far when the translation with Google Translate will be very, very accurate or even comparable to the translator's translation. Try translating text from English to German and you'll be amazed at how well Google can translate. Also interesting is the project of synthesizing the written word into any voice, as you can experience in the demonstration of the startup Lyrebird. More: https://lyrebird.ai/demo. This means that we can create a translation based on the voice sample. A similar project was also designed by the giant Adobe. Of course, the matter is still in its infancy, but it can make us think that maybe one day we will be able to listen to celebrities with their voices in the language you speak. Because of all the above, it will media world completely different in the future.
10. Occupation of farmer
Profession an ordinary farmer as a manual worker, he will be displaced, as smart mechanization will take over most of the manual work. Just like with construction workers, you can very soon we expect autonomous tractors, harvesters and other agricultural equipment. Also, in the future, smart applications that will analyze the state of the fields will enable a smart analysis of when and how to water the plants, plant them, etc. Smart agriculture will still require a human, but on a much reduced scale and in the function of a highly educated manager of agricultural processes and a manager.
11. Banking consultant
Artificial intelligence will of course be extremely soon displaced the human factor in the banking sector. This way, you will be able to check your creditworthiness at any moment based on your generated income and get a loan approved immediately. All data between the bank and stakeholders will be communicated via “blockchain” - data chains, which means that the bank will also have data on your health condition, current employment, taxes paid or circumstances that change your creditworthiness. Occupation of banking consultant/analyst it will not be necessary, as his work will be taken over by artificial intelligence.
12. Business secretary, secretary or assistant
If you have a busy secretary, then you definitely need one to retrain. The age is coming when your smartphone will know exactly about your next step with the set of data it has about you and will manage things instead of a business secretary. For example, texting your meeting that you are on the way and will be a few minutes late. Mark Zuckerberg as a hobby and out of pure boredom, he created such an assistant that manages his life and is of course super-intelligent.
13. Travel agent
Futurists predict an extraordinary future for tourism, because due to progress, people should devote more time to travel, leisure and personal growth. This is also why it seems strange that professions related to tourism could become extinct. And yet, the profession of intermediary in tourist arrangements will die out, as it will be replaced by the applications we already use today. Booking.com, AirBnB, Skyscener they perfectly do the job that a travel agent once did for you.
