60% of Jobs Did Not Exist 50 Years Ago

This is such a rich set of information. Here's a sample of just some of the new jobs that have been created over the past 60 years. Airplane designer. Tattooer. Wind turbine technician. Cybersecurity analyst. Conference planner. Mental health counselor. Dog psychiatrist. 60% of the jobs that are currently being worked didn't exist 50 years ago. 60% only one has been completely removed. The elevator operator. He has been called the academic voice of the American worker David all Tours, the one responsible for that 60% data point.

His team at MIT went through 80 years of official U.S. census records and spotted every brand new job title that suddenly appeared like solar photovoltaic electrician or dog psychiatrist. But the brilliant part was then analyzing millions of patterns to separate inventions that make existing jobs more valuable and powerful from ones that just replace workers. New jobs explode exactly where you think they do, where the makes job better inventions poor in.

Let me give you a few examples. We've already seen that the ATM machine let bank tellers expand what they did behind the counter in the bank world. Stay there. Spreadsheets didn't remove the need for accountants, wildly expanded them. Same thing with analysts. We invented the nail gun so carpenters could spend more time on interesting things rather than banging nails in all day. Houses are much more elaborate because of that.

If we could just type faster and print easier, we could write our articles faster and man, we would be done our work quicker. But the word processor didn't shrink. The staff of the Wall Street Journal and there are ten, maybe even 100 times more writers today because of it. Same thing with movies to make a movie. The film from a camera used to be physically cut and spliced together, loaded back onto a big reel. It's like a big, heavy process.

Adobe didn't take away editing. It changed. It made it far more powerful. Netflix became a global pastime. Augment or replace. That is the question every single one of us is wondering, am I going to be augmented or am I going to be replaced? Having shown you everything I know about this topic, one of my experiences with it, I lean that it augments in a very powerful way, and that statement I lean is critical. You should check my work.

You should assume I'm biased. Same with David Archer. But the data and the history, they're very compelling. So if I were to conclude, if I were to bet put money on, what will happen, the safest bet to make the most likely answer to is I going to take my job is no. But someone using AI will take your job. If you do not use AI. All right. I did not have a chance to record the footnotes before I left for vacation, and the crew is now taking a nap, so I have a quick break in the action to get these done, and I've been thinking about them quite a bit.