Drones, Jobs, and People Can They All Coexist?

With Amazon, UPS, and Google showing off there ideas for the future and robotics some are asking will drones kill an entire workforce? Both Amazon and UPS expressed desires to use commercial drones for deliveries, so you can essentially say goodbye to your mailmen or women and Google just showed off their robotic boxes throwing arm. But to be truthful the answer to whether drones will kill entire workforces is no. Drones wont be taking over your jobs, at least not any time soon. As an electrical engineer I won't lie and say I can't totally see ways companies can use drones to cut back on human employees. In fact you don't even have to be a shipping company to see ways of  using drones to cut back on employees. One example off the top of my head is mail rooms, and interoffice mail. The next would be using the cameras that most drones have, as security, to get rid of security guards. And those are just a couple of ideas. I'm sure if companies were really thinking about ways to use a drone then they could come up with a whole host of ideas to utilize one.

Now the counter argument to drones taking over a mail room or security office, is that someone is going to have  to repair the robots. So if one workforce declines then another workforce increases. But I can't help think about the blue collar worker, and their rick of extinction. As technology advances, we also need to find new ways to balance automation and workers. The automotive industry found ways of doing it, so it can be done. So whether we want to or not drones, and people are going to have to coexist in the workplace.