Sales reps mostly talk to people and convince them to buy things. Relationships and human interaction are paramount. I'm unwilling to speculate a couple of de

Sales reps mostly talk to people and convince them to buy things. Relationships and human interaction are paramount. I'm unwilling to speculate a couple of decades out when I don't think anybody has any clue what's going to happen in the next 5 years, forget decades. But what I will say is this - there is no plausible way to automate human sales relationships in the foreseeable future. I don't even know of companies who are even seriously trying right now. If you take the unbridled enthusiastic position that everything can be automated in 20 years, sure, all those sales guys are toast. I just don't see a pragmatic basis for taking that perspective. Tech gets better and that's great, but what you're talking about would be some Manhattan Project stuff. People have been talking about the potential of those advances since the 1960s. Wake me up when someone announces a date when they'll ship a product.