A Necessary Renaissance: The New Era of Task Automation Phil Moen, President and CEO, Unimax Phil Moen, President and CEO, Unimax For the vast majority of people in the world, daily life was and is consumed with “tasks”. Advances in civilization have focused mainly on making our task lives easier, faster, safer or more profitable. The Industrial Era and the Technology Era alone have each enabled massive changes in world history, right down to the minutiae of our daily lives, like changing the thermostat. There’s been so many evolutions and revolutions in automation, you may wonder what more can possibly be changed?