ABSTRACT

Robots and informats perform most of the heavy physical labour, and mental and intellectual work, respectively, what will be left for people to do? It may be possible that people can then focus on what they do best: think, reflect and communicate. Robotization will occur in parallel with social systems developing infostructure and informatization. Infostructure, as it is used here, refers to all the activities and processes that promote informatization in social systems. Robots, informats, the infostructure and the informatization of society will influence how people work, their leisure time and the structure of employment. In the future, robots, informats and people will most probably work side by side. However, this will not be the case in the short term, because herd behaviour and economic bubbles will result in changes to the economy and social system that will lead to counter reactions against the new. Robotization will lead to herd behaviour in the market and the growth of economic bubbles.