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Very much agreed with this comment. When people compare today's technological displacement of people and say "yeah but it happened in the industrial revolution,
by wpasc 8y ago
Very much agreed with this comment. When people compare today's technological displacement of people and say "yeah but it happened in the industrial revolution, people will as always find new work", I truly think this time is VERY VERY different because of the pace at which technological gains are increasing.
I do not think our society which has recently (and ongoingly) had someone work in one job function (often at one company) for 30+ years is ready for the fast paced change of needing to change jobs every few years.
Look at the rate of displacement in tech of technologies and frameworks. Try being an Angular developer for 20 years... I think people in software have come to expect rapid change because its the nature of the game, but that rate of change is unreasonable to be endured by every industry everywhere.
- pizza234 8y ago> I truly think this time is VERY VERY different because of the pace at which technological gains are increasing. The pace is not increasing. There have been radical changes, as much as in the last few hundred years. Two "poster children" of technological advancements (AI and nuclear) are always behind the corner, but never here. Even if they were here, there would be no catastrophe, as much as there hadn't been with green energy, and transistors. > Look at the rate of displacement in tech of technologies and frameworks. Try being an Angular developer for 20 years... This is irrelevant; Angular or not, the software engineering market is evergreen, even with poorly skilled software engineers (I do know some). This example is actually a counterargument to the thesis: displacement of technologies in this field did not lead to displacement of jobs.