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Here's some food for though: When the automated looms were invented, people thought all jobs would soon go away to the machines, with nothing to do. Surprising
by Zelmor 10y ago
Here's some food for though:
When the automated looms were invented, people thought all jobs would soon go away to the machines, with nothing to do. Surprisingly, new jobs were invented and people have been busy since then. I bet there was something similar happening in ancient Egypt as well, knowing how there are writings about how "the youth do not write properly these days, and the world is going to the dogs soon. Everything was better during my childhood." Look it up.
So I would suggest you clean your pants and don't worry about automation. Just go with the flow and keep an eye open for the radically new form of jobs that will open up.
Also, most of you folks work in services. You build webpages, web applications, SaaS, corporate software or consult on their integration, yada yada. You will never go out of work. This is a big world, and opportunity will remain plenty. It's just changing like it was changing in the early days of industrial machines. Put in the effort to find new frontiers.
- dTal 10y ago>in ancient Egypt ... there are writings about how "the youth do not write properly these days, and the world is going to the dogs soon. Everything was better during my childhood." Look it up. When people claim something dubious and back it up with "look it up" and no further sources, I reach for my gun. Most of those supposed ancient quotes about youth are modern nonsense, and as Google returns no results for your particular quote (and "going to the dogs" is a 16th century English idiom anyway) I'm going to go with "you made it up". Please don't make things up and exhort people to "look it up".