Underwriters in the personal auto insurance market should be looking for another line of work within the next two years, not decades. In an era of driverless cars and big analytics, they’ll be sacked sooner than you think. The train already left the station.
It will take longer than you said (2 yrs) for driverless cars to dominate the roads. The typical life of a car is about 10 years.
The relative homogeneity of personal lines risks will enable elimination of many, perhaps most, agents. But not all of them will disappear. Special risks and exposures will require a few agents to handle those cases.
Does anyone know of a good typewriter repair shop? If so, please reply.
All sarcasm aside, I bet it does sound better! Today’s digital recordings are usually compressed – sometimes so much you can’t hear the lowest of lows and highest of highs – whereas vinyl definitely has that ‘open space’ sound to it. That, and if you play the right record backwards, you’re one step closer to Satan (sarcasm couldn’t be put aside for the entire post after all :)
April 1, 2016 at 4:05 pm
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These “disrupters” are good at only one thing: press releases filled with the buzzwords of the day.
Underwriters in the personal auto insurance market should be looking for another line of work within the next two years, not decades. In an era of driverless cars and big analytics, they’ll be sacked sooner than you think. The train already left the station.
It will take longer than you said (2 yrs) for driverless cars to dominate the roads. The typical life of a car is about 10 years.
The relative homogeneity of personal lines risks will enable elimination of many, perhaps most, agents. But not all of them will disappear. Special risks and exposures will require a few agents to handle those cases.
Does anyone know of a good typewriter repair shop? If so, please reply.
What’s a typewriter? :-)
I believe it’s the thing you hook up between your rotary telephone and your vinyl record player.
Rosenblatt, I still have a vinyl record player. The sound is actually better than digital!
All sarcasm aside, I bet it does sound better! Today’s digital recordings are usually compressed – sometimes so much you can’t hear the lowest of lows and highest of highs – whereas vinyl definitely has that ‘open space’ sound to it. That, and if you play the right record backwards, you’re one step closer to Satan (sarcasm couldn’t be put aside for the entire post after all :)
These “disrupters” are good at only one thing: press releases filled with the buzzwords of the day.