> An aside, this is parallel to what is happening today with computers / > technology. Computers and simple robots are replacing more and more > jobs. As time goes on more and more jobs will require a higher level of > education, as technology does what a worker once did, only better, and > cheaper. Ob-Jordan: In 100 years there will be very few jobs that > computers and technology don't do 100x better[*], This I foretell. > > > * Politics (that vileness), some theoretical math stuff, art, peotry, > fiction, clerics, etc.
Tying two threads together..... I don't have much knowledge about this, (but that has never stopped me before) hopefully I will be backed up in this. Computers are NOT replacing more and more jobs, that's just a bogeyman cooked up by unions and other luddites. In fact the industrial revolution to the information revolution has created MORE types of jobs while keeping almost all of the old ones. I do see some jobs disappearing, but that is called progress. Do we still need wagon wheel makers? Will warehouse fork-truck drivers also fade into history? Probably but that isn't a bad thing if it frees up those people to do other things. Heck would you want us to still be taking the feathers off of chickens by hand or can you be glad that someone designed a machine to do it? (I worked in an automated warehouse, the trucks were unloaded by humans and the stock was put onto an automatic conveyor. From there everything was automatic, until the other end where the stock was loaded on different trucks by humans). Tying this into low paying or dirty jobs, would you go to an automated McDonalds? I'm sure they could that by now. It would be cleaner, no one touches your food, your order would be right 99.97% of the time.....where are they? They have been promising housewives automatic house cleaning devices since the '40s, where are they? You know Hersey Kisses? They invented the machine that takes the chocolate and wraps the foil around it back in the '30s (maybe earlier) and haven't been able to make it better since! (Obviously they have made some improvements, made it faster, ect. but they haven't improved the process). They got it's name, Kisses, because of the way the machine puts the paper flag on the chocolate while the foil is wrapped around it. This little arm swings down and 'kisses' the chocolate. Hersey's mom made the comment that it looked like a kiss when she first saw it. Kevin T. Useless trivia
