Helvetica is one short of the embodyment of god in Fonts. The replacement for it has long since been built and is called Futura. 99% of things we read in the western world goes back to these fonts and their anchestors. I seriously doubt they can find and establish something this iconic.
But I'm curious anyway. IBM has money to burn and chances are their font doesn't suck. What I've seen so far looks ok to me, that much I can say. A replacement for Futura or Helvetica? Nope. Not even close.
... with most websites clocking in at north of 2 megabytes per pagecall these days. Every pageload more than Amigas entire operating system. Think of it. Blobs of bloated mess, delivered by droves of refferer-loaded libs and toolkits,eating away at 1gb/month mobile data quotas in no time, clicked together by clueless interns and even more clueless marketeers in the worlds most favorite web toy WordPress and it's unbelievable hodgepodge of plugins.
Google needs the web to work and if the change described is so damaging they probably regret it themselves by now.
Let's not forget: Because of the push for the all out web, also brought on by Google, we're finally getting web components with native HTML imports, templating, CSS grid and other niceties, and even MS are finally playing ball with the community. The result being that bootstrap and many a polyfill and JS animation and bloated serverside logic can be dropped entirely.
If there's one default I have to take care of as an trade-off, I'm definitely in. This default having been changed by Google is the least of the webs problems. Trust a professional Webdev on this one.
Please don't turn this into a perpetual reboot shitfest. The Peter Jackson versions are perfectly fine and will do for the next 100 years, thank you.
A very neat relyable piece of FOSS Software.
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Audacity 2.2.0 Released
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The audacity crew as been working away at their audio tool for more than a decade now and it's a cornerstone of all things audio I do. A very nice and neat piece of software. Works as advertised, does what it should and is offered up in a neat set of cross-plattform packages. Love it.
Perl is a wacky language and only bareable if you can handle old school unix stunts, no doubt. It gave birth to PHP, which speaks volumes. I remember reading an OReilly introduction to Perl and laughing at the wackyness. I've done the same with PHP, but I've always respected both. Sort of. Unlike newfangled fads and desasters like Ruby, Perl is a language that remains usable. Books on Perl from 18 years ago are still valid today, just like with awk, TCL and Emacs Lisp.
Complain all you want about the awkwardness of old-school languages - they still work and many of them run on just about anything that can be powered by electricity. These days I'm still a little reluctant to say which side Javascript will come up on now that Node has it's very own version hodgepodge gumming up the works.
AMP is google dabbling in the microsoft originated corruption process known as Embrace and Extend.
Google is the new AOL & CompuServe. Through their powerful search engine and other services they have basically taken over the free web and own it by default. It *is* a sort of embrace and extend, albeit one that comes with quite some empowerment. And for 'free' as in "Brave New World meets 1984 with the brakes removed and you'll love it" sort of vibe.
While MSes old-school e (embrace extend extinguish) was a PITA, Google actually manages to make their version of it quite enticing. Google is the new online service that has long since replaced the open web with their version of it - ever since 14 years ago regular people started mistaking Google for the web and Googles search for the adress-bar. We see it with branded custom hardware built around their services poping up
It works. I'm typing this on a 130 Euro chromebook. QED. I couldn't have said this for microsoft back in the day. MS e always was considerably annoying. Google makes theirs feel better - at least with me that is.
Nope. I am partly prototypical nerd and nice guy but I managed to systematically get a little handle on the heterosexual mating game, with an, shall I say, OK throughput of intimate encounters and occasional mind-blowing sex. I could use and would want more, but I guess every heterosexual male could say that.
Interacting a lot with ladies, being genuinely interested/fascinated by them, writing poetry and, this did 98% of the way in the last 10 years, getting into Argentine tango got me where I am today. I still have a reasonable chance of finding the love of my life but right now am actually quite exausted and just about happy being single for a while for the first time in decades.... This can be a prerequisite to good sex btw, although I'm not sure whether I want more or less ONS in my life - it probably depends on the style and vibe they come with.
... that it's specialized upper end jobs that will be amoung the first to be replaced by AI/ML. Like, for example, ours. A buddy I did webdev with left the industry a few years ago and did an apprentice as a plumber for this exact reason. He can pick his employer.
Software development is being streamlined as we speak, and most of the work left to be done is mucking about with badly and very badly designed legacy systems and trying to migrate the whole shebang to something resembling a feasible concept running in the cloud that can be cloned, copyied, backuped, instanced and remodelled with a few mouseclicks or fingertaps.
As we move into a post scarcity economy, capitalism as we know it reaches it's end and bankers and traders are left by the wayside. That's generally a good thing, I think we can all agree.
... younger programmers. And do a little hardcore special work on the side, for 200$ an hour or so.
They have consultant written on their business card and wear suits and shirts and ties and stuff and look really important. Especially with grey hair and wrinkles added.... I call it the "grey hair bonus". Salary is up 15000 to 20000 per year, roughly, vis-a-vis younger proggers. They also stay cool when some manager makes patently absurd demands.
my body starts to wear - f.e. my eyes are getting worse and I'll need glasses soon... annoying. Anyway, as my body starts to wear and show signs of the perpetual usage it's under I phantasize about being able to counteract signs of age, cyberpunk style. Like imagineing some drug I could take to regain brain performance (I feel that declining a little even though I'm putting it to good use (47, just enrolled in college for a BSc+MSc in Media-CompSci now that my daughter is out of the house) or some bioware/cyber treatment that replenishes joints and vertebrae disks and pushes bones back into shape.
Just at the turn of this year I finally had a long overdue laser surgery on my inner nose. I've got an ever so slightly lopsided skull and had breathing problems as a result - this is not that uncommen. However, the mordern laser surgery was minimaly invasive and changed my quality of life in leaps and bounds - for the first time I can breathe correctly through the nose for extended periods of time. A change that has countless minor effects on my everday life including how I can socially interact.
Long story short, we have bodies that are imperfect, wear out and we eventually die and that *does* suck. We all have our personal apocalypse coming and I really wish we'd have some way to add another 5 decades or so. I personally can't complain - I have good long-life genes in the family, I'm notably fit for my age - performing arts training, social dancing, cute ladies and sex as a hobby, bike as main means of transport, lean minimalist lifestyle - and I plan to get fitter - but I still notice end of warranty moving in on me.
If there were a way to slow this, even if it were expensive - costing like a house or something - I'd try to do it. However, if I had the means to extend my life notably vis-a-vis my peers and I'd have to watch them wither and die whilst I stay lean and fit, I am well aware of the fact that that would only work out for me if I'd go along with a notable change of perspective on life in general. I'd probably eventually move to become some sort of guru to help people live their life to the fullest.... After all, imagine what wisdom you gain from consciously living for 150 years or so.... Quite awesome a proposition if you ask me.
My thoughts on this. I do have those these days and I sure hope that someone makes some significant advances in anti-aging tech. Soon. That would be cool.
Ok, young man, here's some important details you should know about VPN
- Not all VPNs are equal. Some fit, some don't. They come and go. When your first VPN goes down, it will feel like the world is collapsing. Don't worry, it isn't. You'll get to see many VPNs in your life and eventually you'll find that one VPN that really fits and you'll stay together and maybe even start your own service. You'll know when the time is right and you've found the right VPN to do just that.
- Some VPNs come with flashy advertising and/or quite some legal block. Don't just look at such VPNs but also at the custom built ones that run their own self-built config scripts and services. Those are real gems and that is where you can find very special VPNs.
- Don't just fantasize and read about VPNs online. Go out and meet some real world VPNs in real life. That is where you will gain the experience to judge VPNs and which work best with you.
- When you get your first real VPN, you still need to protect yourself! I can't stress this enough. Practice applying Firewalls and such when you're in the mood for trying out some VPN.
- When you get your first VPN it might not connect in the first night. Don't worry, it will get better. Soon you'll be VPNing like a bunny.
- If you think you've found the right VPN and want to stick with that for life (very significant decision), do write up a contract covering all the details concerning you and your special VPN - it will save you pain later if things don't quite work out as planned.
Those are the basics, the rest you'll learn along the way. Godspeed!
Its not just the Bro-grammers, the standard programmers who were neurotic anxious kids themselves are the main bullies in IT. They prefer to blame everyone and everything except themselves for their personal failures, and failure to understand the real world. They isolate themselves in commute buses and avoid interacting with "normal" city residents, instead creating a single "inner party" enclave in which they now belong fulfilling deep seated needs, and love throwing everyone they can out. Even to the destruction of the city, region, and nation that they live in. Fuck the geeks who never grew out of being childish idiots.
Oh, zip it already. Please.
Jejus HB Chrickey, how much I've heard this nonsense. Yes we were anxious as a kid. That's what lead me to Zen philosophy at the age of 14. Truth be told: We *are* smarter than many other people around us - especially when it comes to seeing how society works. That's because many a nerd was on the recieving end when it came to bullying. One of the scariest things for me to discover in my mid-40ies is that I was right all along. With 16 you think you're surrounded by idiots. Noticing at the age of 45 that that might actually really be the case is a really scary thing.
I would take a special bus. Not because I don't like to interact with people. I very much do. I just don't like them puking all over me because they spent the night getting drunk while I was at the local hackerspace talking new software kits or our social dancing with cute and sexy ladies that aren't dumb as a post.
Truth be told, the world would be a better place if it were run by smart people. Yes, Sergey Brin is a bit wacky with his AR glasses and both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk appear to have an ego bigger than the known universe, but they actually quite often know what they're talking about and have a track record to prove it.
Just look at the stupidity in the public intellectual and political debate (US, Germany, everywhere) and you need not wonder for a second why smart people leave it all behind, go into the desert and start a tech empire that rules the world. I can't really blame them.
And nobody blaming anyone for their personal faliures. Or flooring a city. This is ultimate non-sense. As far as I can tell Amazon at least is trying to build office buildings that aren't complete shite and adding way more cultural value to Seatle than any yet-another-mass-entertainment-arena or consumer temple/ shopping mall ever could.
The curve for humanity points upwards only because of science and technology. Tech wins. Maybe Twitter or Snapchat seem to be a step backwards, but what they actually do is illustrate to the majority that their priorities my actually be quite stupid. But in general tech wins and moves humanity forward faster than ever - that's a plain and simple fact. So, yes, being righteous about it might actually be justified.
Bottom line: Chill. And think about wether the smart people might actually be right most of the time - especially when it comes to analysing, building and shaping the world we live in.
... give us a chance to see how much our best experts actually still suck at their field.
Humans have feelings, a body, complex interaction between biology, culture and mind. AI doesn't have that. It just plods away at the problem, not looking right or left. Not being able to look right of left. Interviewing dendi as he lost against AI at the Dota international was possible, the AI wouldn't have been able to do that.
My suspicion is that self-reproducing AI will be something like a swarm of robot-insects, fadcinating and highly sophisticated, but somewhat outlandish to squishy mamal humans with a heaetbeat and feelings and other "useless" stuff.
VR will replace the screen for space and mecha games. In short, it will replace where it makes the experience *more* real, not less. So, no, VR is not a replacement for field trips and never will be.
... and had little to do with age. Unless you're a geezer that is.
As for career changes due to age: I notice me getting more nimble and less worried about age, at least in terms of income. If I can't score a job I'll simply go Freelance. With grey hairs and wrinkles coming, I'll have to up my stock of business trousers and shirts and lose the t-shirts, but that involves upping my rates aswell and doing a little more writing and management and less all-nighters seeing up some machine, because next morning an important suit meeting is due. Currently I'm turning down a few jobs here and there that are too cheap (read: demanding my money's worth and not backing down). I'm to expensive for web hacking. But I also wouldn't want to do it anymore.
Bottom line: Adjust for age and social exhortations and you'll be just fine.
... is pretty much pointless in a post-scarcity economy.
That many bank jobs will go is blatantly obvious. Most bankers I see today could be replaced by some shell scripts and a speech recongizer.
A post scarcity economy, if done well, will simply have the long awaited 15 hour workweek.
Point in case: the biggest job I have incoming is 2 days per week as a coach for agile work and Scrum. Not even a Scrum master but a coach for Scrum. Not coding and no Dev ops. And that job is enough for decent pay that others would'be be glad to have for a full-time job.
Other stable jobs around me in my social circle include therapist and dance teacher ( with some coding on the side).
Long story short: We are already moving into a post scarcity economy in quite a few areas, and there are only so many bullshit jobs to go around.
This is classic. The bane of modern utopia. Efficiency and fragility are directly correlated. This goes for any system and society.
If there is one thing that has a large chance of being modern societies demise, it is this. Scary, if you think about it.
Just imagine: One replenishing bioculture that goes back some decades turns out to be labled wrong and all of a sudden countless biological studies are beyond worthless.
Long story short: Do not over-optimize. And question the status-quo once in a while. Especially with systems that seem to run flawlessly indefinitely.
IT may be a cornerstone, but it's very often not the actual business. If IT falls, personnel will switch to pen and paper. If everything else fails, the best IT is pointless.
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Helvetica is one short of the embodyment of god in Fonts. The replacement for it has long since been built and is called Futura. 99% of things we read in the western world goes back to these fonts and their anchestors. I seriously doubt they can find and establish something this iconic.
But I'm curious anyway. IBM has money to burn and chances are their font doesn't suck. What I've seen so far looks ok to me, that much I can say. A replacement for Futura or Helvetica? Nope. Not even close.
But a neat font? Yeah, probably.
... with most websites clocking in at north of 2 megabytes per pagecall these days. Every pageload more than Amigas entire operating system. Think of it. Blobs of bloated mess, delivered by droves of refferer-loaded libs and toolkits,eating away at 1gb/month mobile data quotas in no time, clicked together by clueless interns and even more clueless marketeers in the worlds most favorite web toy WordPress and it's unbelievable hodgepodge of plugins.
Google needs the web to work and if the change described is so damaging they probably regret it themselves by now.
Let's not forget:
Because of the push for the all out web, also brought on by Google, we're finally getting web components with native HTML imports, templating, CSS grid and other niceties, and even MS are finally playing ball with the community. The result being that bootstrap and many a polyfill and JS animation and bloated serverside logic can be dropped entirely.
If there's one default I have to take care of as an trade-off, I'm definitely in. This default having been changed by Google is the least of the webs problems. Trust a professional Webdev on this one.
My two eurocents.
Please don't turn this into a perpetual reboot shitfest. The Peter Jackson versions are perfectly fine and will do for the next 100 years, thank you.
The audacity crew as been working away at their audio tool for more than a decade now and it's a cornerstone of all things audio I do. A very nice and neat piece of software. Works as advertised, does what it should and is offered up in a neat set of cross-plattform packages. Love it.
In a How & Why Wonder Book?
Seriously, the post-ELE meteoric winter is something I knew about as kid back in '79.
Just sayin'.
Perl is a wacky language and only bareable if you can handle old school unix stunts, no doubt. It gave birth to PHP, which speaks volumes. I remember reading an OReilly introduction to Perl and laughing at the wackyness. I've done the same with PHP, but I've always respected both. Sort of.
Unlike newfangled fads and desasters like Ruby, Perl is a language that remains usable. Books on Perl from 18 years ago are still valid today, just like with awk, TCL and Emacs Lisp.
Complain all you want about the awkwardness of old-school languages - they still work and many of them run on just about anything that can be powered by electricity. These days I'm still a little reluctant to say which side Javascript will come up on now that Node has it's very own version hodgepodge gumming up the works.
AMP is google dabbling in the microsoft originated corruption process known as Embrace and Extend.
Google is the new AOL & CompuServe. Through their powerful search engine and other services they have basically taken over the free web and own it by default. It *is* a sort of embrace and extend, albeit one that comes with quite some empowerment. And for 'free' as in "Brave New World meets 1984 with the brakes removed and you'll love it" sort of vibe.
While MSes old-school e (embrace extend extinguish) was a PITA, Google actually manages to make their version of it quite enticing. Google is the new online service that has long since replaced the open web with their version of it - ever since 14 years ago regular people started mistaking Google for the web and Googles search for the adress-bar. We see it with branded custom hardware built around their services poping up
It works. I'm typing this on a 130 Euro chromebook. QED. I couldn't have said this for microsoft back in the day. MS e always was considerably annoying. Google makes theirs feel better - at least with me that is.
Or is this an extension of your "phantasy"?
Nope. I am partly prototypical nerd and nice guy but I managed to systematically get a little handle on the heterosexual mating game, with an, shall I say, OK throughput of intimate encounters and occasional mind-blowing sex. I could use and would want more, but I guess every heterosexual male could say that.
Interacting a lot with ladies, being genuinely interested/fascinated by them, writing poetry and, this did 98% of the way in the last 10 years, getting into Argentine tango got me where I am today. I still have a reasonable chance of finding the love of my life but right now am actually quite exausted and just about happy being single for a while for the first time in decades. ... This can be a prerequisite to good sex btw, although I'm not sure whether I want more or less ONS in my life - it probably depends on the style and vibe they come with.
... that it's specialized upper end jobs that will be amoung the first to be replaced by AI/ML. Like, for example, ours. A buddy I did webdev with left the industry a few years ago and did an apprentice as a plumber for this exact reason. He can pick his employer.
Software development is being streamlined as we speak, and most of the work left to be done is mucking about with badly and very badly designed legacy systems and trying to migrate the whole shebang to something resembling a feasible concept running in the cloud that can be cloned, copyied, backuped, instanced and remodelled with a few mouseclicks or fingertaps.
As we move into a post scarcity economy, capitalism as we know it reaches it's end and bankers and traders are left by the wayside. That's generally a good thing, I think we can all agree.
... younger programmers. And do a little hardcore special work on the side, for 200$ an hour or so.
They have consultant written on their business card and wear suits and shirts and ties and stuff and look really important. Especially with grey hair and wrinkles added. ... I call it the "grey hair bonus". Salary is up 15000 to 20000 per year, roughly, vis-a-vis younger proggers. They also stay cool when some manager makes patently absurd demands.
my body starts to wear - f.e. my eyes are getting worse and I'll need glasses soon ... annoying. Anyway, as my body starts to wear and show signs of the perpetual usage it's under I phantasize about being able to counteract signs of age, cyberpunk style. Like imagineing some drug I could take to regain brain performance (I feel that declining a little even though I'm putting it to good use (47, just enrolled in college for a BSc+MSc in Media-CompSci now that my daughter is out of the house) or some bioware/cyber treatment that replenishes joints and vertebrae disks and pushes bones back into shape.
Just at the turn of this year I finally had a long overdue laser surgery on my inner nose. I've got an ever so slightly lopsided skull and had breathing problems as a result - this is not that uncommen. However, the mordern laser surgery was minimaly invasive and changed my quality of life in leaps and bounds - for the first time I can breathe correctly through the nose for extended periods of time. A change that has countless minor effects on my everday life including how I can socially interact.
Long story short, we have bodies that are imperfect, wear out and we eventually die and that *does* suck. We all have our personal apocalypse coming and I really wish we'd have some way to add another 5 decades or so. I personally can't complain - I have good long-life genes in the family, I'm notably fit for my age - performing arts training, social dancing, cute ladies and sex as a hobby, bike as main means of transport, lean minimalist lifestyle - and I plan to get fitter - but I still notice end of warranty moving in on me.
If there were a way to slow this, even if it were expensive - costing like a house or something - I'd try to do it. However, if I had the means to extend my life notably vis-a-vis my peers and I'd have to watch them wither and die whilst I stay lean and fit, I am well aware of the fact that that would only work out for me if I'd go along with a notable change of perspective on life in general. I'd probably eventually move to become some sort of guru to help people live their life to the fullest. ... After all, imagine what wisdom you gain from consciously living for 150 years or so. ... Quite awesome a proposition if you ask me.
My thoughts on this. I do have those these days and I sure hope that someone makes some significant advances in anti-aging tech. Soon. That would be cool.
... then use it as an alarm-clock/potential WhatsApp/Facebook backup. ... That's what my daughter did with my old tablet anyway.
Ok, young man, here's some important details you should know about VPN
- Not all VPNs are equal. Some fit, some don't. They come and go. When your first VPN goes down, it will feel like the world is collapsing. Don't worry, it isn't. You'll get to see many VPNs in your life and eventually you'll find that one VPN that really fits and you'll stay together and maybe even start your own service. You'll know when the time is right and you've found the right VPN to do just that.
- Some VPNs come with flashy advertising and/or quite some legal block. Don't just look at such VPNs but also at the custom built ones that run their own self-built config scripts and services. Those are real gems and that is where you can find very special VPNs.
- Don't just fantasize and read about VPNs online. Go out and meet some real world VPNs in real life. That is where you will gain the experience to judge VPNs and which work best with you.
- When you get your first real VPN, you still need to protect yourself! I can't stress this enough. Practice applying Firewalls and such when you're in the mood for trying out some VPN.
- When you get your first VPN it might not connect in the first night. Don't worry, it will get better. Soon you'll be VPNing like a bunny.
- If you think you've found the right VPN and want to stick with that for life (very significant decision), do write up a contract covering all the details concerning you and your special VPN - it will save you pain later if things don't quite work out as planned.
Those are the basics, the rest you'll learn along the way.
Godspeed!
*Bill Maher enters the stage, waits for cheering to calm down*
Bill - "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, as we've just heard from the tech community, ..."
Microsoft Chastises Google over Security
*laughter errupts* ...
Its not just the Bro-grammers, the standard programmers who were neurotic anxious kids themselves are the main bullies in IT. They prefer to blame everyone and everything except themselves for their personal failures, and failure to understand the real world. They isolate themselves in commute buses and avoid interacting with "normal" city residents, instead creating a single "inner party" enclave in which they now belong fulfilling deep seated needs, and love throwing everyone they can out. Even to the destruction of the city, region, and nation that they live in. Fuck the geeks who never grew out of being childish idiots.
Oh, zip it already. Please.
Jejus HB Chrickey, how much I've heard this nonsense. Yes we were anxious as a kid. That's what lead me to Zen philosophy at the age of 14. Truth be told: We *are* smarter than many other people around us - especially when it comes to seeing how society works. That's because many a nerd was on the recieving end when it came to bullying. One of the scariest things for me to discover in my mid-40ies is that I was right all along. With 16 you think you're surrounded by idiots. Noticing at the age of 45 that that might actually really be the case is a really scary thing.
I would take a special bus. Not because I don't like to interact with people. I very much do. I just don't like them puking all over me because they spent the night getting drunk while I was at the local hackerspace talking new software kits or our social dancing with cute and sexy ladies that aren't dumb as a post.
Truth be told, the world would be a better place if it were run by smart people. Yes, Sergey Brin is a bit wacky with his AR glasses and both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk appear to have an ego bigger than the known universe, but they actually quite often know what they're talking about and have a track record to prove it.
Just look at the stupidity in the public intellectual and political debate (US, Germany, everywhere) and you need not wonder for a second why smart people leave it all behind, go into the desert and start a tech empire that rules the world. I can't really blame them.
And nobody blaming anyone for their personal faliures. Or flooring a city. This is ultimate non-sense. As far as I can tell Amazon at least is trying to build office buildings that aren't complete shite and adding way more cultural value to Seatle than any yet-another-mass-entertainment-arena or consumer temple/ shopping mall ever could.
The curve for humanity points upwards only because of science and technology. Tech wins. Maybe Twitter or Snapchat seem to be a step backwards, but what they actually do is illustrate to the majority that their priorities my actually be quite stupid. But in general tech wins and moves humanity forward faster than ever - that's a plain and simple fact. So, yes, being righteous about it might actually be justified.
Bottom line:
Chill. And think about wether the smart people might actually be right most of the time - especially when it comes to analysing, building and shaping the world
we live in.
My 2 cents.
Everyone can watch everyone.
These days we are closer to this than we are to ultimate privacy.
... give us a chance to see how much our best experts actually still suck at their field.
Humans have feelings, a body, complex interaction between biology, culture and mind. AI doesn't have that. It just plods away at the problem, not looking right or left. Not being able to look right of left. Interviewing dendi as he lost against AI at the Dota international was possible, the AI wouldn't have been able to do that.
My suspicion is that self-reproducing AI will be something like a swarm of robot-insects, fadcinating and highly sophisticated, but somewhat outlandish to squishy mamal humans with a heaetbeat and feelings and other "useless" stuff.
My 2 biped mamal cents.
VR will replace the screen for space and mecha games. In short, it will replace where it makes the experience *more* real, not less.
So, no, VR is not a replacement for field trips and never will be.
Captain Obvious was glad to help.
... and had little to do with age. Unless you're a geezer that is.
As for career changes due to age:
I notice me getting more nimble and less worried about age, at least in terms of income. If I can't score a job I'll simply go Freelance. With grey hairs and wrinkles coming, I'll have to up my stock of business trousers and shirts and lose the t-shirts, but that involves upping my rates aswell and doing a little more writing and management and less all-nighters seeing up some machine, because next morning an important suit meeting is due. Currently I'm turning down a few jobs here and there that are too cheap (read: demanding my money's worth and not backing down). I'm to expensive for web hacking. But I also wouldn't want to do it anymore.
Bottom line: Adjust for age and social exhortations and you'll be just fine.
... on how to catch the attention of the opinion leaders. Sort of like Apple with Mac OS X back in the day.
If they can get feasible convergence on its way, more power to them. It's just a shame that I find Samsung's phones and their UI so ugly.
But this might prompt other vendors to follow suit and fingers get convergence going. It's not that today's phones aren't powerful enough.
... is pretty much pointless in a post-scarcity economy.
That many bank jobs will go is blatantly obvious. Most bankers I see today could be replaced by some shell scripts and a speech recongizer.
A post scarcity economy, if done well, will simply have the long awaited 15 hour workweek.
Point in case: the biggest job I have incoming is 2 days per week as a coach for agile work and Scrum. Not even a Scrum master but a coach for Scrum. Not coding and no Dev ops. And that job is enough for decent pay that others would'be be glad to have for a full-time job.
Other stable jobs around me in my social circle include therapist and dance teacher ( with some coding on the side).
Long story short: We are already moving into a post scarcity economy in quite a few areas, and there are only so many bullshit jobs to go around.
This is classic.
The bane of modern utopia.
Efficiency and fragility are directly correlated.
This goes for any system and society.
If there is one thing that has a large chance of being modern societies demise, it is this.
Scary, if you think about it.
Just imagine: One replenishing bioculture that goes back some decades turns out to be labled wrong and all of a sudden countless biological studies are beyond worthless.
Long story short: Do not over-optimize. And question the status-quo once in a while. Especially with systems that seem to run flawlessly indefinitely.
... time and time again, for all of us in IT:
The world doesn't revolve around you.
IT may be a cornerstone, but it's very often not the actual business. If IT falls, personnel will switch to pen and paper. If everything else fails, the best IT is pointless.
Don't over-estimate your own importance.
... you shouldn't use any operating system or computer work environment that needs to rely on anti-virus software to relyably function.
Glad I could help.
Can be taken out by an awkwardly thrown loose ball of string.