Technological Development in the US - Graphs and Examples - JM

John Mazziotti
November 25th, 2019
GPHC
Mr. Roddy
Tech Development in the US
Currently, in the United States, automation is on the rise more than ever and is not only gradually increasing in Mega-Cities, but in smaller towns that are labeled as “High-growth Hubs” have a high rate of technological development. My first graph is on “Annual employment in select segments”, which discusses the percentage of employment from 2007 to 2017, and shows employment data from a plethora of different data points
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The next graph I chose is a bar graph and contains a more specific example of job inequality throughout a multitude of different cities, urban areas, etc. This graph shows 2 shades of different shades of blue which remark on the decade difference in job growth. It shows that smaller High-Growth hubs have higher employment growth than all other options on that graph, including mega-cities.


The third graph I chose is a net job displacement map that shows what job displacement is estimated to look like by the year 2030. The highest displacement is marked in the darker blue, and you can see that a lot of the displacement that will be occurring will be in rural and less developed communities than lots of major cities.

These graphs are definitely a good estimation for what is coming in the future for the case of job growth, but I do not think that automation will impact as many jobs as predicted. Firstly, the jobs that have the highest probability of being ruled out by autonomy are assembly-line type jobs. A great example of assembly-line jobs comes from the automotive industry and the manufacturing of cars. The Tesla Motor Corporation is already assembling almost 100% of its car using programmed machinery, and that same wave of autonomous assembly is starting to threaten other assembly-line jobs for the Ford Motor Company as well, considering that all of their vehicles are put together by a line of people. Another great example is the transportation industry. Lots of electric cars at this point in time have an “Autopilot” feature and can even do trips around a local area without supervision. That is just one of a handful of examples that can be seen to have a large impact on the concept of job inequality and could be seen next decade. This new autonomy era will not impact any sort of job that I am looking for because the jobs that will be impacted are not in my interest.

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