As technology has advanced and increased leverage for workers, ie, fewer workers or reduced effort needed for equal to more output, social and market demands have increased. When email was a new technology, the general prediction was that it was going to reduce the amount of hours applied toward dealing with paper mail. While technically true about paper mail per se, it didn't reduce time spent on mail more broadly. People are expected to respond to more mail (email) in a quicker turn around time. Some of that work has moved to synchronous communications such as chat clients like Slack. But overall, the amount of communication, responses, and expectations for keeping up with those messages has increased.
If something can be automated, it'll probably be a mixed bag of reduced demand from a human, but it's not a leap to think that some of that work will shift to other responsibilities and/ or new demands for work will arise that rests on that new automation. When telephone operators were a big thing, that specific role did get automated. But how large are the telecommunications industry and related technologies? Some of the largest on the planet. Think of all the workers connected to that.
Going back to programming, we'll probably see something similar
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Reply to AI will not replace software developers, It will just drastically reduce the number of them. by masterile
As technology has advanced and increased leverage for workers, ie, fewer workers or reduced effort needed for equal to more output, social and market demands have increased. When email was a new technology, the general prediction was that it was going to reduce the amount of hours applied toward dealing with paper mail. While technically true about paper mail per se, it didn't reduce time spent on mail more broadly. People are expected to respond to more mail (email) in a quicker turn around time. Some of that work has moved to synchronous communications such as chat clients like Slack. But overall, the amount of communication, responses, and expectations for keeping up with those messages has increased.
If something can be automated, it'll probably be a mixed bag of reduced demand from a human, but it's not a leap to think that some of that work will shift to other responsibilities and/ or new demands for work will arise that rests on that new automation. When telephone operators were a big thing, that specific role did get automated. But how large are the telecommunications industry and related technologies? Some of the largest on the planet. Think of all the workers connected to that.
Going back to programming, we'll probably see something similar