The New World of Unemployment — What if Robots Do all the Work?

Do we survive in the “era of leisure”?

Just recently we were amazed to see Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk launch space tourism on the news. How futuristic do you think this idea was? The first, almost decadent and expensive flights went into space in July and actually landed safely back on earth. If only for a few minutes. Nobody could believe that this was already possible.

Elon Musk committed himself to autonomous driving and surprised us a few years ago with the possibilities of almost hands-free, relaxed driving. Driving without a driver? Why not? His latest project is the development of a humanoid robot, the Tesla Bot. It should be able to take on monotonous and constant as well as boring tasks. In other words, exactly what machines have always been intended to do.

Musk has been investing in the future for a long time because he sees what we can actually do now and are able to implement. He dares to put things into practice and not to wait until the last one has understood that we are technologically advanced enough to finally make all of this a reality. So what are we waiting for?

Are We still Sleeping?

But why don’t we already live the future now? Are we still sleeping? Are we not interested in it? Or…