The amount of automation available to us over the last few years has grown by leaps and bounds.

Doing things like sifting through raw data, looking at trends and then acting upon those trends. Think of your fridge recognizing you are getting low on milk and you normally buy milk on friday’s. So it will notify you on your way home, when you are near a store that it’s time to pick up some more milk.

A lot of automation is starting to pop up in day to day operation capacities too. Letting you know how much inventory you should stock, when you should stock it and how long it should take to sell it.

Removing the human element in most cases to make decisions that could easily be done by a spread sheet and a computer script.

From what I’ve gathered so far this scares a lot of people. Not so much the people that are possibly in those positions. But from the people who seem to think there needs to still be a person doing certain tasks that frankly don’t need a human.

The next time someone tells you that something would never work because you would need a person to make that call.

Simply ask them “Why”

I promise you this will make for interesting conversation.