Automation of production and office work will provide programmers with work at least up to the nearest apocalypse.
There are two types of people. The first are sure that the future is up to programmers and soon artificial intelligence will take their place of work and deprive them of blood money, forcing them to explore the price difference between beer bottles at the point of delivery of glassware.
Second, they will not wait for neural networks to finally start doing all the routine work for them to devote their lives to the couch and get an unconditional income from the state.
There is also a third type of people who understand that the replacement of human labor with machine labor is an inevitable process, but if he leaves someone without a job, it is not them. These people are programmers.
They are so afraid of clerks because everything goes to the fact that soon the whole departments in the corporations will be replaced by bearded programmers serving the self-learning neural network. Office managers, call center operators, salespeople, hotel staff, and even bartenders, as Oxford University's 2015 study showed, these are the professions that are first in line to disappear.
The same thing is happening in the factories because the Chinese and Vietnamese have long been unprepared to work for a plate of rice. The opening in 2017 of a fully automated production of Adidas sneakers in Germany or the construction of the Tesla GigaFactory in Nevada is proof of this. And this is just the top of the iceberg, because...
The power of gadgets requires more and more programmers, and it will only get worse
Smartphones, tablets, augmented reality goggles, gyroscutters, drones, fitness bracelets, smart watches - all this requires a huge army of programmers who create new applications every day only so that in the morning you know what kind of pulse you had during the rapid sleep phase.
In the very near future, we will see a boom in virtual reality helmets and unmanned cars. These technologies have already created whole new professions among programmers like virtual reality architects or big data system developers.
Moreover, sooner or later the programming skill will become an integral part of any educated person, whether he is a manager or a lawyer. And in many countries this is well understood, so...
The future is up to the programmers? Programming has been taught since childhood!
If you still think that programming is the province of specialists and professionals, you are stuck in the past, the future is up to programmers. And even pre-school children, for whom there are specially developed learning languages, program today. The most famous ones are Scratch from MIT and Blockly from Google.
Both are built on the same "block" principle - each team is represented here in the form of a graphic block. They can be connected in chains - these "trains" are made up of blocks and form a code that defines the sequence of actions of the program.
And it is possible to program not only virtual objects - on sale there is a heap of the robotic toys functioning on children's programming languages. Older children use single-board computers micro:bit.
The computer's already standing there like a dinner at a mid-range restaurant
The functionality of micro:bit single board computers is entirely in the imagination of the programmer.
Today, the prices for such computers are just a few dollars.
All this indicates an important change - if until recently the invention of gadgets was the province of certified engineers from large corporations, now, thanks to cheap computers, the situation in some way returned in the 70's of the twentieth century, when the technology moved forward advanced geeks from the garages. This in turn means that...