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> a highly-specialized job that has traditionally relied on being able to draw the best of the best from a wide talent pool. Where will that wide talent pool c
by a3n 8y ago
> a highly-specialized job that has traditionally relied on being able to draw the best of the best from a wide talent pool.
Where will that wide talent pool come from, when most of the non-best of the best flying jobs are automated?
- CamperBob2 8y agoExactly the problem. I have no idea. Ender's Game?
- cstross 8y agoHistorically, the Royal Air Force used to go around recruitment fairs with a bunch of (analog) machines designed to test the hand/eye coordination of possible trainees -- use a couple of geared wheels to keep the dot on the moving target, for example. They gave up on this about a decade ago, because the average applicant for an air cadet slot now had better reflexes and hand-eye coordination than second world war fighter aces. (They might fail on the physical fitness requirement, but the average kid today is insanely good at keeping the gunsights on the target using a joystick compared to the average kid in the 1940s.)
- village-idiot 8y agoFor those interested, it’s been speculated that video gaming has caused this. In many ways playing a lot of console video games as a young child is basically the best possible early training to become a pilot of some sorts.