Speakers (including Tim Davies) discuss the impact of automation on jobs and daily life: while technology can remove specific roles (e.g., machinists), it often creates many new jobs over time; domestic appliances are framed as everyday robots that quickly become normalized.
Certain jobs are taken away by technology. What often happens is many more jobs are created. We no longer have 100 machinists sat there doing their individual work. We have a robot that does it perfectly every time, you know, but that took time to come in.
We talk about robots in the home and I say to people when I've got an audience, put your hands up if you've got a robot in the house. And then I call everybody who doesn't have their hand up a liar. Because they've got a washing machine, they've got a tumble dryer, they've got a dishwasher. They might not have a robot vacuum, but they've got robots and automation in their life everywhere.
Absolutely.
And it just becomes part of the normality.
EP 60: Why Founders Become the Bottleneck — And How AI Changes Everything | Thea Brook
