The rise of optimization of technology has been all around us.
Helping every individual in a more tranquil
way of living. Now, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is taking place introducing a more promising way of living. However, how fascinating it may seem there would always be a negative effect in a revolution. One of which is its potential to robotize humanity and thus deprive us of our heart and soul. However, I beg to disagree with the statement for the following reasons. 1. Robots are made specifically to assist humans. Stated by Brad Keywell (2017), robots and humans when working together produces a better work. Robots are designed in order to assist the humans. People can be better at their jobs with the technology of today—and the technology that is yet to come—rather than fearing that their human skills will be devalued. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-is-about-people-not- just-machines/ 2. The Fourth Industrial Revolution have a potential to bring a new cultural renaissance (Schwab, 2015). Wherein, humans can live in a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. It is dependent on us, humans, to build a society with a foundation of common perspective of inevitability. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/10/will-the-fourth-industrial-revolution- have-a-human-heart-and-soul/ 3. According to Jessica Barden in her article The Pros and Cons of Having Robots in the Workplace, robots depends on their Artificial Intelligence; however, us humans have a competence to learn more and broaden our knowledge . Robots can not improve their knowledge beyond what they are programmed simply because they are not capable to act freewill. https://www.zippia.com/employer/the-pros-and-cons-of-having-robots-in-the-workplace/ 4. Robots may be improving as years pass; however, they are not still better than us humans. Conferring to Morgan (2017), robots are operating in a narrow level. As what is stated earlier, they only perform what they are programmed to do that humans designed. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/robots-have-been-taking-our-jobs-for-50-years-so- why-are-we-worried-now/ 5. Robots does not have the capacity to generate creative solutions (Onibalusi, 2018). It is true that robots maybe better than humans doing repetitive tasks; however, creativity is a human trait that robots do not possess. https://tech.co/news/robots-replace-humans-work-2017-08 6. At the end of the day, it will always be the humans that will decide what the future will hold based on how we will shape it. And that is by prioritizing people first and boosting them. There may be a possibility of humanity being robotized but I believe in accordance to what Klaus Schwab (2016) have mentioned that our human nature which are creativity, empathy and stewardship would lead into new collective and moral consciousness. https://www.ge.com/reports/the-4th-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-how-to-respond/