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No, not worried about that, particularly. But there are few other options, that might be worrying to some:

The routine tasks will more and more go away. Still amazed how much is done by hand today (like research, data preparation, communication, marketing, business to business processes, scheduling, HR).

Just as with every profession over the past decades, if you want to stay employable, you will have to level up your game significantly because the simple software stuff (of which there is a huge amounts today) will go away, let's say in the next ten years.

In 2030 software related employment will look more like in the 1960s. A highly selected and highly self selective group of borderline asperger guys having a blast thinking, proving theorems, playing piano and writing code.

Why I believe that? Because we see the 80-20 rule play out in so many fields. And in 2030 the leverage you get from technology will just a tad more intense that in is today.




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