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Re:Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-co... by xapata on Sunday September 25, 2016 @03:48PM (#12577046)
Through most of history, people transition to doing other jobs. That transition is often painful. Thus various government welfare programs.
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Re:Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-co... by DavidWanjiru on Sunday September 25, 2016 @04:17PM (#12577196)
Well, if this video [0] is anything to go by, most of the other jobs will be automated as well. And although I have no foresight to know how it will pan out, it looks like advances in technology (which have produced previously unimagined jobs for humans - hello, Android dev), advances in technology in this new age will only create new jobs for automatons, not for humans.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

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Re:Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-co... by xapata on Sunday September 25, 2016 @04:32PM (#12577268)
Until we hit the singularity, programmers can always get more meta -- thinking about how to do the job rather than doing the job, no matter what the job is. It's infinitely recursive.

In the not-so-distant future, nearly all jobs will be programming jobs. That or shaking hands and smiling.

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