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I would challenge you to paint a picture of a far off future where most jobs haven't evaporated 200 years ago, nobody would have guessed that there would be mi
by byoung2 13y ago
I would challenge you to paint a picture of a far off future where most jobs haven't evaporated
200 years ago, nobody would have guessed that there would be millions of computer programmers employed in the world today, because the rise of computers couldn't be predicted. It's likely that in an era where basic needs are provided by robots, people are free to come up with new inventions that lead to the creation of new industries that don't exist today.
- acgourley 13y agoIt's been well proven adding more developers to a single project has extremely diminished returns, so what you're saying is that there will be a free market demand for a huge amount of different software projects. While it's true that software is eating the world and thus we're seeing a net increase in projects started, we're also seeing a lot of consolidation in the more established software verticals. Once we've digitized all the existing flows of information present in non-software industries, I would expect the number of developers employeed by a free market to begin to shrink.
- byoung2 13y agoso what you're saying is that there will be a free market demand for a huge amount of different software projects That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that there are currently millions of people of working in an industry that was unheard of a century ago because the modern day computer was invented. There are millions of people who have jobs today related to cars (manufacturing, sales, repair, driving, etc.) because the car was invented. There could be some new invention we haven't thought of today that spawns an industry that will employ millions.