When Machines Do Your Job

[moondust]

8. Yup.

Previous generations of automation had people operating newer, better machines; now a computer does it. Once a computer has the code to perform a task it will keep doing it with only minimal, if any, human intervention required. I sense that a lot of computer programmers are now or at some point will be facing employment difficulties because so much code has already been written and may only need minor modification from time to time. And a lot of programming jobs have already been shipped off to India. (Weren't those "high tech" jobs supposed to replace the offshored "low tech" manufacturing jobs?)

Brynjolfsson was on Eliot Spitzer's show last week. Looks like an interesting book.