Back in the day, when the Jacquard machine entered the industry, my advice to weavers would have been to either begin tapping into their network and move to art

Back in the day, when the Jacquard machine entered the industry, my advice to weavers would have been to either begin tapping into their network and move to artisanal sales, or to learn how to operate/maintain mechanical looms. The writing was on the wall with the punch card system. In retrospect, it didn't take too long to go from the mechanical loom to diffusion models and world models for robots. Of course, there was a longer timeline of incremental improvements on the loom over years, so the industry was not transformed overnight. But that's what's worrying people this time. We might not have time to reskill or retrain before financial hardship strikes. Especially in the current political climate. The middle of WWIII is one of the last periods I'd have asked for this automation revolution to take place.