A century ago, something like half the U.S. population worked on farms. Now it's down to a couple percent of the population, if that.
Let's say it went from 50% to 5%. Does that mean that 45% of the work force is unemployed?
Of course not. The environment changed and people adapted. Those who did not adapt, perished.
What did that 45% do? They got jobs in new fields that never existed before... In the last 100 or so years, we have seen the dawn of automobiles, airplanes, assembly lines, radio, TV, telecommunications, and computers. We have seen the government expand without bounds - the dawn of the income tax, the Social Security Administration, the Securities & Exchange Commission, and so on. Those areas have been responsible for creating a couple of jobs now and then...
Anybody who is intimidated by this forecast is not interested in ideas, success, prosperity, or progress -- just drawing a check and playing with toys.
Put another way, imagine a village in a remote corner of the world. This village is five miles away from the nearest water. A good samaritan comes in and drills a well for them so they don't need to spend literally all day just meeting their basic needs. Do the village water boys fret because they are losing their jobs?
That said, I don't put much stock in a 10+ year forecast like this. These folks don't even know what happened yesterday.
Bottom line: your cheese is going to move, but you don't yet know how. Learn to adapt - learn to think - and don't get too comfortable.
Slashdot Mirror
A century ago, something like half the U.S. population worked on farms. Now it's down to a couple percent of the population, if that.
Let's say it went from 50% to 5%. Does that mean that 45% of the work force is unemployed?
Of course not. The environment changed and people adapted. Those who did not adapt, perished.
What did that 45% do? They got jobs in new fields that never existed before... In the last 100 or so years, we have seen the dawn of automobiles, airplanes, assembly lines, radio, TV, telecommunications, and computers. We have seen the government expand without bounds - the dawn of the income tax, the Social Security Administration, the Securities & Exchange Commission, and so on. Those areas have been responsible for creating a couple of jobs now and then...
Anybody who is intimidated by this forecast is not interested in ideas, success, prosperity, or progress -- just drawing a check and playing with toys.
Put another way, imagine a village in a remote corner of the world. This village is five miles away from the nearest water. A good samaritan comes in and drills a well for them so they don't need to spend literally all day just meeting their basic needs. Do the village water boys fret because they are losing their jobs?
That said, I don't put much stock in a 10+ year forecast like this. These folks don't even know what happened yesterday.
Bottom line: your cheese is going to move, but you don't yet know how. Learn to adapt - learn to think - and don't get too comfortable.
Of course it's in Java; it avoids that pesky platform-dependent code problem... just switch to the Martian JVM!
I mean, who wants to work with
C'mon!