Nanotech Jobs

From Wikipedia…

People who work in unskilled labor jobs for a livelihood will most likely become the first human workers to be displaced by the constant use of nanotechnology in the workplace. Layoffs often affect the jobs based around the lowest technology level before attacking jobs with the highest technology level possible. Even had the current global economic slowdown never occurred, nanotechnology would have forced employers to permanently downsize their population base of blue collar employees. It is a given fact that the global economic activity will eventually return to the levels it would have achieved had the recession of the late 2000s never happened; even the Great Depression was a mere blip in the growing economic activity of the world in the previous 100 years.[1] Every major economic era has stimulated a global revolution both in the kinds of jobs that are available to people and the kind of training they need to achieve these jobs. The world’s educational systems have lagged behind in preparing students for the Nanotech Age.

However, jobs are getting less physical and more mental as the technology levels improve. Eventually, work will resemble more like play rather than the traditional back-breaking physical work of earlier centuries. Nanotechnology will be dominant in all sectors of the manufacturing industry. Nanotechnology will eventually replace conventional factories with nanofactories once the economy is viable enough due to their small carbon and physical footprint on the global and regional environment. These nanofactories will be programmed to create additional nanofactories for the cost of nothing but the raw materials and necessary programming once the original project is successful.[34] The miniaturization and transformation of the multi-acre conventional factory into the nanofactory will not interfere with their ability to deliver a high quality product; the product will be of even greater quality due to the lack of human errors in the production stages. Nanofactory systems will use precise atomic precisioning and contribute to making superior quality products that the “bulk chemistry” method used in 20th century and early 21st currently cannot produce.

As a result, the huge factories that currently exist in the early 21st century will be demolished and re-wilded into forests. Just like the Information Age diverted the majority of the working adult population from manual labor in factories to jobs involving computers in offices, the Nanotech Age would shift the computerized workforce in a more complex direction. In addition to simple accounting and clerical duties, white-collar computer jobs would expand into work involving genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. Women currently outnumber men in the workforce due to the most recent recession to hit the male-dominated manufacturing and automobile sectors, making it possible that the labor force of the Nanotech Age will be female-dominated. Society will refocus itself to recognize the wife as the primary breadwinner while the husband is the homemaker and the caregiver of the children.

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