by Spider » Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:13 am
To be fair to Com on his comment (lol Stemlords), there are quite a few white color types that are pretty boned. Financial and legal analysts are proving no match for software these days, and the AP has been using computers to literally write sports and financial news items that used to be handled by journalists for quite a while now. We'll wind up with quite a lot of automation in healthcare before too long. Education, too. Really, any human job that is centered around parsing information is something that can be threatened. Even certain creative spaces can be screwed over by software. Behold the musical composition created by a nonhuman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgG1HipAayU
^That might as well have been written by a space alien, for all the DNA involved in making it happen.
But yeah, automation has mostly been screwing over the low wage earners for centuries. Not exactly a new trend.