Smart Systems Threaten More Jobs Than Outsourcing

fbform writes "A strategy consulting firm called Strategy Analytics has announced that outsourcing to India and other countries is a small threat compared to having IT jobs replaced by 'smart systems'. Quote from a different news-source: 'higher value-added jobs - involving identification, assessment, conclusions, decisions, and recommendations - will continue to be lost to systems with increasingly intelligent capabilities'." Such as this one.

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Re:Hurry!

[Anne Thwacks]

I would not worry too much. Not too long ago, they said high level languages would make programmers redundant. Then they said 4G languages would make programmers redundant.

Can you imagine a "natural language" based system replacing that SQL app you spent two years writing? No? Well I be a journalist can.

This announcement is just one more dollup of horse-manure in a long line of horse manure.

This trend first(?) mentoned in 1811.

[ron_ivi]

To the best of my knowledge, this trend was first reported by Ned Ludd in 1811.

Textile workeres were losing their jobs to stocking-machines that did knitting more cheaply than themselves, and indeed decided to destroy the machines. They organized into a group known as the Luddites, until England cracked down hard on them - wikipedia reporting that "at one time, there were more British troops fighting the Luddites than Napoleon Bonaparte".