The Future Is About Empathy, Not Coding

With the fast advancement of digital technologies and the allure of entrepreneurial lifestyle, plenty of people in different professions turn to coding thinking that the future will require even more IT skills than today. Although I do not question the importance of digital literacy in general, I believe medical professionals should rather master soft skills and acquire a futurist mindset than go for coding if they truly want to prepare for the coming decades. Automation, A.I., and robotics turn the job market upside down At the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, automation and digitization of our worlds and workplace are continuing, changing the job market, the nature of many jobs and even the concept of what it means to be working. Many fear that robots and automation will take their jobs without alternatives. The phenomenon is not new: in the 19th century, members of the Luddite movement – textile workers and weavers – destroyed weaving machinery in protest and fear that machines would take their place in their industry. Lately, the same fears emerge in healthcare about artificial intelligence taking the jobs of radiologists, robots surpassing the skills of surgeons, or taking jobs in pharma. A renowned voice in tech, Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures told CNBC that A.I. will be bigger than all other tech revolutions, and robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade. Stephen Hawking even said that the d...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Medicine AI algorithm artificial intelligence coding empathy gc2 Healthcare Innovation job market robotics social skills Source Type: blogs