US Workers, Automation, and Me
The MIT Technology Review reports that some 94% of all US workers don't believe they will lose their jobs to advances in automation.Now me, I welcome the automation advances because I will likely be one of those coders in the mix at the at level of consumer impact ... meaning, yeah, I can do robotics and have a reasonable facility with AI as it existed a few years back.
In the venue I find myself working presently there is a distinct need for those who can wrangle technology because the bulk of those in that environment have slim to no clue at all.
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This is not braggadocio, but I don't see a lot of issues with a workforce that can't handle the ownership of those assets they utilize in their daily work and I don't see the stakeholders grasping the reality of technology to the point that they will assume those duties in my lifetime.
Therefore, I personally feel "somewhat" safe in the workforce being multisystem conversant and pretty handy with a backplane and handful of interfaces, processors, and memory.
For me, the commodity is a combination of technology and those who must use those things to accomplish that work which comprises the enterprise. That interface between the two is what I do.