Evolution in Skills Upgrading for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

By Emilia Ismail

March 2019 FEATURE
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Parking attendants are being replaced with autopay systems. Similarly, supermarkets are increasingly introducing self-checkout machines. All these bring to question: Are machines going to replace humans?Muhamed Ali Hajah Mydin.“Some jobs may have already been replaced by machine automation, but we are still a long way off from being replaced by machines,” says Muhamed Ali Hajah Mydin, CEO of the Penang Skills Development Centre (PSDC).“It does not mean you cannot be made obsolete. Industry 4.0 affects everyone – from the fishball...

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Emilia Ismail

is a freelance writer who has a love-hate relationship with the weighing scale.

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