The most depressing thing is talking to children about potential careers at the moment... My girlfriend have a couple of younger siblings, one of them loves art and draws endless – he really wants to design characters for cartoons and video games. The other loves programming and wants be a developer. I've always encouraged these passions of theirs, telling them if they work hard they can do the things they love as a job and get paid well for it. I don't know what to tell them anymore...
I worry that over the last few decades we've been going through a golden age of career opportunities without really appreciating it. With a few exceptions no career considered desirable has been fully automated, and at the same time the variety of jobs that we can do has grown almost exponentially. I mean even something like farming where there's been a lot of technological innovation we still absolutely need farmers – will the same be said about graphic designers in say 5-10 years? Perhaps we'll need a few people prompting the tools, but will it actually make sense for anyone to physically draw anything?
For the most part in the past people had to do whatever job they could. I worry we may be returning to that world. It seems likely there will still be service jobs where human interaction is valued, but eventually it seems all jobs that don't require that human presence will eventually be automated. Although, we're probably still quite a long way off all manual labour jobs being automated fully.
I worry that over the last few decades we've been going through a golden age of career opportunities without really appreciating it. With a few exceptions no career considered desirable has been fully automated, and at the same time the variety of jobs that we can do has grown almost exponentially. I mean even something like farming where there's been a lot of technological innovation we still absolutely need farmers – will the same be said about graphic designers in say 5-10 years? Perhaps we'll need a few people prompting the tools, but will it actually make sense for anyone to physically draw anything?
For the most part in the past people had to do whatever job they could. I worry we may be returning to that world. It seems likely there will still be service jobs where human interaction is valued, but eventually it seems all jobs that don't require that human presence will eventually be automated. Although, we're probably still quite a long way off all manual labour jobs being automated fully.