Since the first moment a transistor was created, we started asking ourselves as a species — what will we do once this automates our work?
Ranbir Arora
CEO of Oneday
From Bob Noyce with the first silicon chip, to Steve Jobs with the first Apple 1 personal computer, to Vint Cerf, father of the internet. Each invention we created, pushed us forward into this future.
And the zeitgeist reflected this looming question, with blockbuster movies like The Terminator and Ex Machina, to bestselling books like Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot; we could not help but wonder what becomes of us when technology assumes our jobs.
We’ve been on a wild ride in our brief 5,000 years as a literate society. The first and second industrial revolutions saw us going from a society of local agricultural workers to working in mass factories in large cities; and then the third industrial revolution saw us go from mass factory workers selling manual labour, to knowledge workers that sell time.
Now, as autonomous driving vehicles start completing our driving jobs; the biggest tech companies use algorithms to automate our marketing & design jobs; as advanced AI begins completing our coding & engineering jobs, and Google searches make storing knowledge largely redundant — the next revolution is happening right in front of us.
As our process-driven roles become automated, it’s time for us to stop doing repetitive physical/mental tasks that are already formulaic. As technology takes over these routine tasks for us, this frees up human capital to do what is uniquely human: to apply creativity, vision and empathy to tackle our yet unsolved problems. In short, to be entrepreneurs.
It’s time to realise our full abilities as a species. Imagine a world where every human was empowered to use their ingenuity to solve a problem they deeply cared about, and to become financially independent off of this work. Climate change, sustainability, disease & hunger.
Imagine the progress we would make.
At Oneday, we create technologies that help us advance towards this future by removing barriers for entrepreneurship.
Richard Jewell
CPO
Richard Jewell
CPO
Randa Al Baker
Head of Mentorship
Randa Al Baker
Head of Mentorship
Amal Al Shamsi
Content Writer
Amal Al Shamsi
Content Writer
Pavel Proshin
Head of Design
Pavel Proshin
Head of Design
Farkhad Gadiev
CTO
Farkhad Gadiev
CTO
Ranbir Arora
CEO
Ranbir Arora
CEO
Taras Polik
COO
Taras Polik
COO
Steph Hamill
Senior mentor
Steph Hamill
Senior mentor
Mia Bennett
Faculty Lead, Senior Mentor
Mia Bennett
Faculty Lead, Senior Mentor
Juan Linares
Head of Community, Senior Mentor
Juan Linares
Head of Community, Senior Mentor