The advancement of tools and applications has enabled us to step up and focus on the higher skills and value we bring.
Recall when an adding machine was necessary to total up a large sum of numbers, then recheck them and seek out transposition errors. Or the need to chop copious amounts of vegetables to prepare a banquet. Or the difficulty of creating lengthy reports, checking grammar, and editing all mistakes.
Now, we instead take the time saved on those functions to analyze and assess, create, and design to move what we are working on further. Without appreciating it, we have been released from the mundane and elevated towards the higher beings of our craft.
Technology and advancements will continue to afford these opportunities. And with that, we will be encouraged, challenged, and ultimately mandated to step up. If we choose not to, we may be replaced by more efficient and effective systems and deprive ourselves of the ability to help push the boundaries of possibility.
