Comment by moezd

I'd like to imagine that a factory from 1880s looked a lot different than today, with IoT and robot arms and whatnot. Intellectual work will still be needed, always will. Just think about "computers" of the Space Race era. Their whole job was to sit down with a calculator and calculate the engineering approximations for an orbit that takes a rocket to the moon. Then they installed IBM monoliths and suddenly you needed a few computer scientists only, plus mechanics for overall maintenance of the machine and utilities. And noone ever stopped teaching electronics at all. In fact, that kick-started the Moore's law era.