Housing, the trades, these may be one of the few places where you are not replaced, plumbers, carpenters etc. skilled with your hands on site. If anyone ever needs a house again perhaps there may be a future.. someday, but who will afford that fancy custom home you might be building because Watch out Lawyers, watch out accountants, watch out anyone who thought brain power and processing skills would make you rich. More computers like Watson are on the way. So if you languish happy and fat in conservative bastions of prestige, perhaps not for long.
David H. Autor, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the United States economy is being “hollowed out.” New jobs, he says, are coming at the bottom of the economic pyramid, jobs in the middle are being lost to automation and outsourcing, and now job growth at the top is slowing because of automation". nytimes.
And what he means is automation due to computers, you know, ones like that talk it types software you may have but more sophisticated, And perhaps we will no longer need Chris Mathews, surely a computer could think faster and have a larger less stuck up personality, or Wolf Blitzer, good by big news sitting at that desk. Hello blue screen animation and computer that talks and reasons.. Time for Bob Chip and the big news.
