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Re:For 20-Somethings, Ambition at a Cost by redschell on Saturday March 02, 2013 @04:16PM (#5311096)
True, but look at the timeline for your daughter. Assuming she was recently born, and, given that few from a school like Penn would want to be a rural family physician, assuming she's going into an elite specialty (cardiology, neurology, oncology, etc), she's THREE DECADES away from getting started in her line of work. And that's a generous projection. More likely, she'll need to be hyperspecialized, an expert in some obscure niche area like cancers of the eye, in which case she would need more and more education, and I doubt Google's engineers are going to just chill out and wait for her.

Not trying to be a downer here. I'd rather the world have more aspiring doctors than talent agents, but let's also respect the march of progress, and acknowledge the cruel fate of all that stands in its way.

Re:For 20-Somethings, Ambition at a Cost by rayiner on Saturday March 02, 2013 @04:37PM (#5311186)
I understand the point your making, and I don't disagree with you, but let's say I'm skeptical of Google's ability to do anything other than help my find my porn more easily. AI has just been such a miserable failure for decades. Indeed, Google's big advancement came from incorporating human intelligence (encoding in the graph of links between pages) into the search process! I'm not saying it's not going to happen, but rather that it's like manned missions to mars. Always just 20 years away...

As an aside, being a rural doctor is amazing. They're in very short supply, and therefore the salaries are correspondingly quite high.