It makes no sense to become a financier in the future, since algorithms will be better than any person to process and analyze data. Philosophers and philologists, on the other hand, have every chance of achieving success, says billionaire and entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
Billionaire and investor Mark Cuban, like many other experts, believes that robots will take jobs away from humans in the future. He also recognizes that the market and the nature of labor are changing. Moreover, in the next 5-10 years, such large-scale transformations will occur, which mankind has not seen in the last 30 years.
People will lose their jobs, and retraining will not help them, since there will be nothing to retrain, the entrepreneur notes in an interview with Bloomberg. According to Cuban, the world has begun the process of automating what has already been automated. Analysts and coders can no longer match algorithms as they can process more information in record time. The sphere of finance is especially susceptible to undermining, since machine intelligence is able to analyze data arrays without human intervention and issue the necessary invoice.
“In 10 years, I believe the demand for humanities will be greater than the demand for programmers or even engineers,” Cuban said. In the future, there will be a need for people with a special view of things who can critically assess the data collected by the algorithms. According to the investor, these skills are possessed by philologists and philosophers.
The importance of philosophy in the future is also emphasized by the President of Ireland, Michael Higgins. He believes that in the world of technology, it is the humanities that will allow formulating ideas and making balanced judgments, that is, performing tasks that are not yet given to robots and algorithms. Philosophy in Ireland is already being taught to teenagers 12-16 years old and they are going to introduce a course for younger students.
Philanthropist Bill Gates and World Economic Forum President Klaus Schwab also rely on humanitarian knowledge and emotional intelligence. And representatives of the British Parliament believe that the most valuable skills in the future will be the ability to quickly solve problems and be creative with them, as well as the ability to work in groups - both with humans and with robots.