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Like It or Not, Automation Is Coming

 Like It or Not, Automation Is Coming

(members:郭哲豪、陳柏均)

The controversial issue 

The issue discusses the impact of automation in the long term and short term.

The author’s position on this issue

The author thinks that automation will replace labor, which will cause some people to lose their jobs, however, it also brings more employment opportunities than before. In conclusion, the author supports automation.  

The author’s arguments

1. New technology will lower the costs of the traditional manufacturing methods.

2. New technologies often create jobs.

3. We can improve families and communities to higher standards of living by automation.

The evidence

1.     Robotic process automation (RPA) software is helping reduce administrative burdens by mimicking human actions and performing repetitive tasks, such as recording data.

2.     The greater demand for new products increases the demand for workers with the skills to develop, refine and use those goods. As stated by economist Alex Tabarrok, if technology didn’t create any jobs, “we would all be out of work because productivity has been increasing for two centuries.”

3.     Thanks to technology are able to help those transitioning in a much more personal and dignifying way than a government-based approach.

Our opinion on this issue

I agree with the author. After reading this article, I think that automation is an unchangeable future, because of its convenience and efficiency. To support my opinion, I list 3 reasons.

First, in the traditional agricultural community, it takes many times and manpower to harvest products. However, since we develop the harvester, we can be more efficient to harvest.

Second, the assembly lines also play an indispensable role nowadays. It not only has higher efficiency but also lowers the cost and stabilizes quality.
Although automation could have a few disadvantages, we still think the pros outweigh the cons.

Last, automation is not only can apply in agriculture or industry, it can also be used in our daily. For example, now we have a vending machine that can cook automatically such as the ramen vending machine in Japan.

Related Vocabulary

1. obsolete: no longer used or needed, usually because something newer and better has replaced it.

à Typewriters have been rendered obsolete by computers.

2. ennoble: to make something or someone better so that people admire it, him, or her more

àHe has this theory that suffering can ennoble a person's character.

3. curb: a limit on something that is not wanted

à You must try to put a curb on your bad temper/spending habits.

4. ominously: in a way that suggests that something unpleasant is likely to happen

à I went into the kitchen and found him lying ominously still on the floor.

5. impend: If an event impends, usually an event that is unpleasant or unwanted, it is going to happen soon

à A crisis of huge proportions impends in the area.

6. mimic: to copy the way in which a particular person usually speaks and moves, usually in order to make people laugh

à She was mimicking the various people in our office.

7. upheaval: a great change, causing or involving difficulty or trouble

à The long garbage strike in 1970 caused much political upheaval.

8. turmoil: a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder

à The country is in a state of political turmoil.

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