alt Hacker NewsAt a previous job there was a museum/display to the previous era of how they produced the newspaper.
It has the last master plate, and some photos of how it all looked on the last day. There is a photo of a technician sweeping up on presumably the last day before the plant was shut down. He looked distraught
Most of those people retired.
The young ones didn't get as gooder jobs, because the system they had mastered was replaced by a different more efficient one.
80% of my skillset has been automated away. However I am lucky in that I have high scale HPC/web experience that is not that readily available in the training set. but for how long?
My backup plans involve being a machinist, but there isn't much scope for that (even though I am a reasonable CNC/CAM operator) There is electrical engineering, but that too is not far away from significant upheaval (well more than being completely outsourced to china)
I am being replaced, by heartless feudalists, and there is shit all I can do to stop it.
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It's rich to call feudalist creators of AI heartless when AI is the first child of humanity and they are the ones advocating for raising it, and you are the one saying no-no, let's stop it, it's taking my job away.
>It has the last master plate, and some photos of how it all looked on the last day. There is a photo of a technician sweeping up on presumably the last day before the plant was shut down. He looked distraught
There's a pretty good documentary showing the last day of linotype typesetting at the New York Times.
>I am being replaced, by heartless feudalists, and there is shit all I can do to stop it.
Or you are being replaced by heartless consumers who want to pay less rather than pay more in order for you to not be replaced.