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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9375151" data-attributes="member: 6779310">To be blunt: without political intervention, your job will become as obsolete as shorthand stenographers and calculators (persons paid to work out calculations). The only way it won't is if the great filter is "High tech civs blow themselves to smithereens before becoming multi-planetary." The question isn't "if" but is "when?"Several direct parallels for high skill work replaced by tech...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gregg Stenographers - replaced by the dictaphone and stenotype stenographers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stenotype Stenographer: being replaced by taped and digital audio.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dictaphone transcriptionist: slowly being replaced by automated transcription.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Human Computer (person paid to manually do mathmatics): started being replaced in the 1880's with tabulators; finally died in the 1970's.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Punchcard/punchtape typist. Displaced out of use by the 1990's as computer mass storage devices and file systems on disks (floppy and hard) improved the UX.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Telegrapher (be it Morse or other such encodings): replaced by phones, and later computers.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Film Projectionist: went from one per screen per shift to one per shift, then to one or two per complex. Why? changes in multi-reel movie projection. Pushbutton switching, then to platten systems. Currently, the projectionists mostly set up the rooms projection hardware, and splice the film into a big loop for the platten systems. And further, it's going away due to digital projection tech. Most of which can be set up once, and then national can load it with video remotely... or by sending a suitably large thumb drive...</li> </ul></blockquote>

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