Dreams and technology.

This post may be slightly more of a rant, for which I will apologise in advance.

But last week I had a nice deep think with myself on what I want out of life and what I want to achieve etc.
Basically the main theme of my goals is to write and I really want to write a book. I will obviously work all that out later on when I begin to write the book, I also want to help people with mental health issues but not in the generic counsellor sense, I want to do something revolutionary with it to truly help people not just give them 12 weeks of therapy then dismiss them to the world.  But yeah anyway back to the theme of dreams and technology.

I was in college the other day and a teacher said how we basically keep putting people out of jobs by creating technology that can do the jobs instead of humans or more efficiently than humans which isn't yet a concern but 10 years down the line and many technological advances it may be a higher concern.  But the teacher essentially said we need to be driving people to do higher qualified jobs that can't be driven out by technology and we need to discourage dreams. But how corrupt is that? We need to be encouraging dreams because a robot can't write a book, they can't set up businesses and create ideas. They can't write song lyrics from the heart. I appreciate a robot could do all this but not to the extent a human can getting the full emotion and experience in to the writing or the passion behind driving an idea to create a service or product that is the basis of a business.

But beside this, maybe what we should be discouraging is creating technology that drives people out of jobs or if that occurs securing the jobs in an alternate way, because there's a large enough struggle to find jobs as it is without lessening them by creating more technology.

Anyway, that's just my thoughts, feel free to express your own in the comments.

Book update: I may need 2 weeks to read each book until I'm back in to the swing of doing work, and reading faster etc. Although I'm loving We're All Completely Besides ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. I can't wait to finish it!
Also, sorry this post is a day late, next week I will be posting on a Sunday again due to being busy on Saturday night.

Thanks for reading,
Love, Caitlyn x