"Automation can kill some jobs, but Internet-based automation usually needs debuggers and people to monitor this and update, beta test."
Righty right. :)
"While technology will eliminate simple jobs, it will create amazing opportunities with those who have the skills."
That is exactly why it's so important to give people who are still in school the opportunity to develop those necessary skills by providing them with the technology they need.
Thw Internet and devices are not for entertainment only, as so many keep on saying even today. Amazing!
Susan, you hit the nail on the proverbial head my friend! Automation can kill some jobs, but Internet-based automation usually needs debuggers and people to monitor this and update, beta test. While technology will eliminate simple jobs, it will create amazing opportunities with those who have the skills.
I wonder what the Internet will look like in ten years; I am sure it will be quite different from what we have today. I do think, hounhosp, that you and other visionary thinkers will have a say in what those changes are, and how they happen; and for those of us who are willing to creatively adapt there will always be opportunities.
Some IT support jobs will probably disappear in 10 years. But if you are an IT consultant , a project manager or a software developer, I think you will certainly be fine.
"Why is all of this true? The Internet. It didn't threaten my job, it created it."
Very true, chuck! I am one of the lucky one who will probably be contributing to the evolution of the internet in 10 years. So I should rather feel happy.
Everything I do is mostly related to the internet and in 10 years I might be "almost" living a great part of my life online. But I will make sure I don't live 100% of my life connected.
I haven't worked at a regular job for a decade or more. My work is wherever I am; there is always something to be done, and there are almost always people willing to pay for it. I have more variety and usually more satisfaction from my work now than I ever did in more traditionally structured job environments. I work from home most but not all of the time.. I set my own hours. Whether I thrive or starve is mostly up to me.
Why is all of this true? The Internet. It didn't threaten my job, it created it.
I tell people that my job is, "I explain s***." And whether I'm a writer, a blogger, a podcaster, a Tweeter, a radio personality, or whatever, it's all the same thing. And while it's true that people in India can do what I do for a fraction of the cost, and computers might be able to learn how to write articles, I still think there's going to be an endless market for people who can explain s***.
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I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
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Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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