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Will a Robot take my job?

What if I tell you that the job you have been working on or your dream job that you want to work on with might be automated in the next few decades. There was a time when automation was a means for factory machines to do a repetitive task. But today they can drive a car, land an aircraft and trade stocks. But wait, has not automation been around for decades? What’s different this time? Our past and innovation For the longest time, humans worked in agriculture for a living. With the rise of the Industrial Revolution, this shifted to production jobs and then to the service sector as automation became more widespread. Now only a few moments ago we entered the information age. In the past things were simple. Innovation made human work easier and productivity rose, which means more services could be produced per hour but with less or the same number of people. This eliminated some jobs but also created many other jobs that were better because of the growing population required more