The Future of Work

Zoey Weinstein
Mr. Roddy 
GPHC
11/23/19
The Future of Work
With the rapid rise in technology, the nature of jobs and job opportunities are constantly changing. With AI technology becoming more advanced, human jobs are being taken over like factory jobs and receptionists. AI is currently taking over many high-tech inner city jobs and will probably continue to do so as the world of technology progresses. The graph shown below represents the outflow and inflow of people to different types of cities. As stated in class last week and shown by the graph, many Americans are moving into niche cities with very specific things bringing in their revenue, like a university being the center of the city or things like hiking and small local businesses. These are businesses that are on a smaller scale where AI is less likely to take over and where jobs will most likely flourish in coming decades. 








This can be further proven by the next graph below. Urban core cities have a high rate of job growth, but that is inevitable because of the nature of the cities. But as we can see, nich cities like silver cities and college towns are on the rise. It has been evident that these niche cities have been on the rise with many millenials moving out there to start small businesses and to work in the very niche and almost “trendy millennial” industries on the rise out there. 














Instead of a third graph, I wanted to explore the effects of AI and technology on a job field that interests me. I want to go into a job involving music and the arts. I have been passionate about music for years now and I am curious about how technology will affect that job field. An article I read titled AI and music: will we be slaves to the algorithm? Claimed that Ai is learning to write and compose music. Reading this, I became worried that the jobs of musicians will be taken over due to the speed and efficiency of AI. We can already see that electronic music is taking over the music industry today and I am worried that musicians who sing and play instruments will fizzle to the background. It will be a crazy ride seeing where this goes, but all I can say is to supoort local bands and artists. There is nothning wrong with electornic music, but it is imortant ro respect artists who play and sing themselves.



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