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Re:The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person by Simp on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:51AM (#10128108)
>A 2013 paper by two Oxford researchers projected that nearly half of U.S. jobs would be vulnerable to automation within 20 years.

Who says "social skills" can't be automated?

> But “computers aren’t good at simulating human interaction,”

Not yet you mean.

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Re:The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person by LoSboccacc on Thursday August 27, 2015 @04:48AM (#10128287)
most importantly, who's gonna build the automation?

there are engineering needs for a hundred years or more* to transform current work centered society in an automation centered society, and even then those things won't just maintain themselves forever.

*not because technical challenges, but because the resistance from who detains the status quo

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Re:The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person by tyilo on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:52AM (#10129342)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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