The need to reduce human intervention

If we compare the way our parents and grandparents used to start and end their day to the way that we do, we might find a stark difference. This can be witnessed in the difference between how Josef and Jacob do things too. Let us look into their different lives and relate them to how automation and machines have changed lives.

Josef tends to wake up before sunrise. He wakes up, does his morning chores, and then usually goes for a walk or a run. On his way back, he picks up a carton of milk from the store and then the newspaper that the delivery guy has delivered to his doorstep. He spends some time on the couch reading his newspaper along with his morning tea. Josef then gets ready for work before preparing breakfast for both him and Jacob. When Jacob was young, this was also the time Josef would wake up Jacob and try to get him ready for school. Josef was mostly ready long before Jacob was awake. They sat together for breakfast, where they...