The Second Machine Age

The Path to Success In the advent of the technological revolution, humans’ role in many industrial fields has dwindled. Robust iron joints and metal rods replaced the fragile hands of worn out workers. The intricate neural connections and relentless synapses in brains were pensioned off in the lieu of cold electronic chips. With jaws dropped, palms sweating, and eyes vacuously staring in the looming future, it becomes important to save the future employment ship from an inevitable crash. In this essay, I will put forth the crucial qualities that employees should possess to be successful. The modern technological age has placed employees and machines in one competing pool. Therefore, to be competitive, employees must acquire skills that set them apart from any machine. To succeed in the modern world it is important to acquire skills that machines cannot emulate, such as emotional intelligence, reading, writing, critical thinking skills, unstructured problem solving, and ability to break loose from monoculture. Emotional intelligence is a crucial quality for success because it sharpens the individual’s ability to communicate …show more content…
The authors invoked an argument mentioned in a book called “The New Division of Labor”, which stated that “pattern recognition and complex communication are two broad areas where humans would continue to hold the high ground over digital labor” (54). It is plausible to infer from the quote that emotional intelligence is an example of a complex form of communication that is highly valued and cannot be emulated by machines. The complexity of emotional intelligence stems from the fact that it requires a combination of substantial human’s experience and the ability to evaluate complex sensory information in fractions of a