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And this also means that developers in this case are evolving, we are technologists. Which is more like the car designers. And these guys are still around and g
by Demiurge 13y ago
And this also means that developers in this case are evolving, we are technologists. Which is more like the car designers. And these guys are still around and getting payed a lot, and probably will be for a long time, designing spaceships. Software engineering, which also requires original thought, also will never disappear. So I would say the original authors analogy is dead wrong.
- cellis 13y agoI'm sure CAD software made lots of car designers redundant. What most people in our industry seem to not realize is the intense power accumulation laws at work. 1 Designer can now do the work that 50 could in the 50s. All that wealth is now going to one person (or whoever captures the wealth they would otherwise generate -- in this case car co. shareholders and customers).
- bluedino 13y agoOnce the gas engines become obsolete and everyone's car runs on an electric motor, that's going to make a lot of designers hit the unemployment line. A gasoline engine has thousands and thousands of little parts and associated systems. Electric motors are very, very simple by comparison. Someone needs to design and manufacture all those little parts.