Automation can lead to loss of skills from "summary" of The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr
The march of automation through the workplace and beyond has long been regarded as a boon to human progress. Machines, it's assumed, can perform tasks more quickly, accurately, and efficiently than people can. But as automation becomes more sophisticated and pervasive, its downsides are becoming increasingly apparent. One of the most troubling is the potential for a loss of skills among the humans who rely on automated systems to do their work for them. When we offload tasks to machines, we free ourselves from the tedium and drudgery of those tasks, but we also relinquish the opportunity to develop and maintain the skills required to perform them. Over time, our abilities can atrophy and our knowledge can fade. We become dependent on the very systems that were meant to liberate us, and we find ourselves ill-equipped to cope when those systems fail or are unavailable. The more we rely on automation, the more vulnerable we become to its shortcomings. The problem is compounded by the fact that automation tends to make tasks easier to perform, reducing the need for human intervention and oversight. As a result, we may find ourselves engaging less with the work we do, relying on automated systems to handle the details while we focus on high...
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