Sunday, July 30, 2006
Just what you'd expect...
It's just what you expect in a Robotic Nation -- the economy is growing vigorously, but very few people (outside the wealthiest) are seeing any benefit from that growth. Reports this week confirm that the process is even affecting people with college degrees:
College-grad wages stuck in a slump
From the article:
College-grad wages stuck in a slump
From the article:
- Wage stagnation, long the bane of blue-collar workers, is now hitting people with bachelor's degrees for the first time in 30 years. Earnings for workers with four-year degrees fell 5.2 percent between 2000 and 2004 when adjusted for inflation, according to White House economists.
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I'm also seeing the impact of automation on my own job.
I have a masters in computer science and am now a software developer with a big (and I mean real big) company.
*sigh*
You used to require real smarts and intellect to do what I do now. You used to require programming skills. And programming is what makes computer science fun. Programming is why people go into computer science in the first place, as it is an outlet for your creativity.
I'm building standard insert/delete/update functionality on top of tables now. And I do it using SAP Netweaver. A program which has completely sucked the soul out of software development.
All I do is click and drag stuff. Source code is not something you type in anymore; it's something you copypaste from all the other tables which are already completed.
I studied my ass off to get where I am today, only to be put to work on conveyor belt type of work.
In the future, we will build software by designing it and then hitting the 'build app' button.
In the future, ICT people won't be ICT people anymore. They'll be designers/managers/whathaveyou that happen to have ICT-knowledge.
I have a masters in computer science and am now a software developer with a big (and I mean real big) company.
*sigh*
You used to require real smarts and intellect to do what I do now. You used to require programming skills. And programming is what makes computer science fun. Programming is why people go into computer science in the first place, as it is an outlet for your creativity.
I'm building standard insert/delete/update functionality on top of tables now. And I do it using SAP Netweaver. A program which has completely sucked the soul out of software development.
All I do is click and drag stuff. Source code is not something you type in anymore; it's something you copypaste from all the other tables which are already completed.
I studied my ass off to get where I am today, only to be put to work on conveyor belt type of work.
In the future, we will build software by designing it and then hitting the 'build app' button.
In the future, ICT people won't be ICT people anymore. They'll be designers/managers/whathaveyou that happen to have ICT-knowledge.
Are the effects really due to robotics and automation or do we have something else going on? For example, could it have more to do with oil as we approach peak oil? If it was due to automation and robotics would we not also see more opportunities in robotics? At least in research?
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