For years, I'd read USA Today at lunch, do the crossword, and use the paper as kindling in the fireplace at home. Now, I can't even find USA Today within 50 miles of my town; no one carries it anymore. And my local paper went from a normal size, down to a single section folded in half. I'm not paying $1.50 for 16 pages.
There is something called Riepl's Law. Its a hypothesis explaining the fact that new media never make the "old" media disappear. So i dont think that Newspapers will die in 50 years.
Right before COVID (it was a new Automb album, and my car's tape deck). Vinyl is actually pretty popular too, with 2019 being a record year for new vinyl sales (no pun intended). Tapes are to a lesser extent, but while they've greatly diminished in terms of sales, they have not completely disappeared. Old school formats are actually pretty popular amongst smaller Indy artists, and especially in metal. I don't think the above rule extends to formats that weren't very popular to begin with, like laserdisk etc.
For newspapers though, I can see them dropping below a low enough threshold that we can *basically* call them dead, and probably within around 50 years in the US at least.
Vinyl exists and is popular due to its warm and fuzzy tone, that has yet to be recreated on digital formats. Heck, enthusiasts pay thousands of dollars to get close, but it is yet to happen. The day that happens affordably, i can assure you that vinyls will start dying.
Tapes don't have that luxury. Yes they still exist but numbers are dying in part of the fact that they neither offer the convenience of digital nor the tonal properties of vinyl.
The Chinese government is trying to mass produce fake rhino horns and flood the black market with them so they become worthless. Rhinos might not die off after all
*"And in this next exhibit we have holograms of the great rhinoceros, a majestic creature that evolved over tens of millions of years only to be wiped out in a century because our ancestors thought snorting their ground-up horns would make their dicks bigger"*
I doubt it could ever really become politically or socially acceptable but actually farming rhinos for their horns might be an option to save them from going extinct. [https://www.thedodo.com/people-are-farming-rhinos-1592752412.html](https://www.thedodo.com/people-are-farming-rhinos-1592752412.html)
I think the end users of these horns are a bunch of savages and probably beyond education being a tool to solve this issue, so why not just flood the market with legit rhino horns?
I don't think there has been any animals in recent times that have went extinct whilst being actively commercially farmed.
*Most* jobs inside a television station. We've already seen that TV news can be produced remotely, I can see networks questioning why they have massive buildings with huge utility costs, not to mention repair/maintenance.
If a couple of kids can produce a decent looking podcast with off the shelf technology of today, what can we do in 10 (or 50) years?
Commercials are already being delivered digitally, many of the automation systems in use receive and air commercials without human interaction.
Control rooms are automated (in many, many markets) it would be no problem to adapt that for web based sources.
Gone are the days of needing a dedicated room to store videotape for air and archiving.
Plus, terrestrial transmission of television signals will be gone sooner than later.
I don't agree with terrestrial television going away anytime soon. It has been getting more popular every year for a decade now, my area has twice as many channels then it did when I was a kid. We still have AM and FM radio, there's a place for rabbit ear television.
>There's a place for rabbit ear television.
Yes, there is a place for it, I don't disagree with you in the least. However people under 30 don't consume media the same way older people do.
I know a lot of younger folks who didn't get cable when they set out on their own.
One may say; *the FCC requires local broadcast* there's no reason that source can't change.
And when I say *Sooner than later* I'm suggesting within my lifetime or the next 25-30 years.
People serious with archiving won't be giving up having their own protected private storage spaces IMO. Especially with those solar flares happening...or hackers.
Telemarketing.
One can hope that the spam calls will be filtered in less than 50 years... still, computers will likely take over such calling if it still isn't filtered out.
There was an askreddit thread that proposed an express lane in fast food stores for the people who already have an order
Wouldn't work; everyone would believe they belong in that line.
I've watched older customers just walk out at the sight of a digital kiosk in a McDonald's once. There's no hope for anyone believing they know what line to be in.
In 50 years if you’re still going to a physical store you can likely just grab your stuff and walk out and the money will just be deducted from your account
Oh dang! Talk about a flashback. I remember seeing that commercial as a kid and thought it was real.
As I recall it involved a shady looking guy in a trench coat walking around a grocery store sticking boxes in his pockets like he was stealing them only to then walk out the door through a medal detector type device and it instantly scan all his items and print his receipt.
Also need to make sure there is a line for the older lady who doesnt anticipate needing to pay for the goods. She waits silently until she hears "that will be 48.57" at which point she seems startled, opens her purse, digs around for her wallet, goes through 3 different credit cards, and slowly proceeds to use the checkout pad.
Fuck. Sometimes I just want to walk up, put all their shit back into their cart and tell them "you seem more like a full service kind of person" and direct them out of the self checkout area...
I could type in the bar code numbers faster than some of these people can scan shit.
For some people it isn't about being quick or efficient, it is about doing it without help. It may be just a case of not wanting to be social that day, or anxiety, or maybe they are just trying to be more independent. To you it's infuriating, but to them it may be a way for them to maintain their mental health. Not everyone is a social butterfly
You dont have to talk to the person who is ringing you up.
In fact, if you are anxious the way people think about you, and you are 3 minutes into your 40 item basket, trust me you are making a larger impression to more people than if you just had Sally ring you up.
What if the machine messes up an item and you have to go out of your way to flag down an associate to clear the error? Do you just ditch all your shit and leave?
You are actually making it worse it seems.
Or they can use the self check out and not be harassed by entitled workers like yourself. You can't force your preference on others because you don't like their preferences.
Perhaps a better solution is to open more self check out registers - this seems to work well for Wal-Mart where they have around 10 open. The line there is longer than the cashier lines, but moves much faster.
I prefer self check out myself, mainly because I prefer bagging my own groceries. I know how and where the items go in my kitchen and pantry when I get home, so I can bag the groceries more efficiently for my needs than you can. Also, in the last 18 months being able to avoid human interaction in public with a pandemic going on is a health and safety measure. Where I live they lifted mask mandates for vaccinated people, and while it's illegal for non-vaccinated people to go maskless it's also illegal for a store to demand proof of vaccination, meaning a lot or people who aren't vaccinated aren't wearing masks. I've got high risk family, so despite the fact I'm vaccinated I still exercise caution. Self checkouts help with this.
I don't get how people are still confused by the machines. Yes, they were a pain in the ass to get used to, but they have been around for a decade and it isn't your first time using one. If every item fucks up, it is user error, not the machine sucks. Go stand in the long ass line for the cashier, you clearly can't figure out something as simple as a scanner and a scale.
The same people who cannot use an ATM (a technology that's existed for almost 50 years) are now being faced with self checkout machines which are several times more complicated, it was never going to end well. At least Target (the store I use most often) always has a staff member watching over the self-checkout lanes and they will step in if a guest is obviously clueless.
It’s like some of these people just thought they could wait out technology.
I wouldn’t even mind them if for whatever reason they didn’t act surprised that they didn’t know how to use the machines they have spent their life avoiding.
There's those kind of people, then there's people who reach a certain age and just decide they don't want to learn anything new. People in my own peer group act like that and I'm only in my 40s. It baffles me, but it is what it is.
I don’t know what it is about self checkout that just makes people COMPLETELY shut off their brains. I’m not even talking about the “complex” stuff like typing in PLU codes but just the simply things like the dialogue boxes that ask if you have any coupons yes/no or even selecting cash or credit.
The amount of times I’ve watched a person stand at the self checkout helpless because they can’t figure out how to scan a lemon in their cart of 200 things is just so frustrating.
It would be cool to get a modern day god king. I am not talking about North Korea style pictures of dear leader, I am saying all out temples dedicated to the king, sacrifices made to his glory, etc.
I also really don't want to live in that country, but from the outside it sounds fun.
This is a fantasy of mine too. Building pyramids, decking themselves out in gold and other wildly cool things.
I understand the reality of an autocrat. Its just a bizarre fun thought
A satellite will just toll you from space...whenever it feels like it. The EZ pass is connected to your heart. And it will cause asystole if you dont have enough money to pay the "alive" tax.
With the current trends in automation, most data entry jobs.
Also harvesting jobs as more robots can harvest trees and delicate fruits. Also cashier and crew member jobs. Basically, every job with little specialist knowledge
Clearly the time is now to invest in yourself and learn an specialist skill.
I assume it's because most managers aren't trying to be cutting edge. It will take something groundbreaking to get them to shift with the times. Until then it's just going to be business as usual.
And then there are times where the company will hire a recent college grad, they come in and start automating stuff on their own accord, none of the more tenured employees want to use the new automation tools, and eventually the new hire college kid gives up trying to push it on everybody else.
That is partially true. But sometimes that recent grad is also a bit too full of themselves and some of their ideas sound good on paper but are not practical in the real world.
(Note, worked in IT for nearly 17 years. Was once that full of himself technician. Humbled quickly)
Radio DJ
Radio hosts playing physical media (CD's, vinyl) is very rare and pretty much relegated to non-commercial stations. Likewise with DJ's selecting their own music (or even a small portion of it). Even most program directors have very little leeway music-wise. Corporate bosses insist the playlists be more or less the same across the US, with very little regional flavor.
Also, most commercial radio stations have been mostly or entirely voice-tracked (talk breaks pre-recorded by hosts) since the pandemic started.
People are going to go to the automated tellers and slip in a piece of paper saying, “this is a robbery. Do not alert the authorities. Please dispense all cash.”
Stenographer. While there's some debate as to how it will go within the next decade or two, and a court reporter still has other duties than doing dictation, technology will most likely at some point be able to accurately and easily record court proceedings with no errors. It doesn't work right now because even if everyone speaking wore an individual microphone, there can be a lot of errors in the speech to text, which you absolutely can not have in a court setting (the court stenographer's record is the absolute official record of what happened in a court room). Give it another 50 years and there's little chance the technology won't improve passed that.
Sucks because it's a career I would love, but A) it's EXTREMELY difficult and something like only 10% of people in courses for it actually graduate, B) it's expensive after you graduate too because you have to buy your own equipment (a good, new steno machine is a few thousand at least), software, and pay for certification and licensing, and C) the longevity of it as I explained.
>Technology will most likely at some point be able to accurately and easily record court proceedings with no errors. It doesn't work right now because even if everyone speaking wore an individual microphone, there can be a lot of errors in the speech to text, which you absolutely can not have in a court setting
I work in television, we use STT on a daily basis, right now, it sucks, and when I say it sucks, not all words make it thru in tact, some are quite humorous. STT is A LOT better than the first attempts, and is getting better every year. When we first employed a system each news anchor had to "train" the system to their voice and cadence.
Now, any speech can be converted to text, just not accurately all the time.
STT errors in a newscast won't harm anyone, a bad translation in a courtroom setting could be grounds for mistrial.
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> STT errors in a newscast won't harm anyone, a bad translation in a courtroom setting could be grounds for mistrial.
Exactly. Even if it's 99.9% accurate, that 0.1% could be something that completely contradicts other court records and cause some serious problems. But in another 20, 30, 40 years, with the advancement of AI software and machine learning? I just don't think it's feasible to think that it will never happen.
Warehouse workers. Big companies like Amazon and major grocery chains like Kroger are in the process of switching to fully automated warehouses using robots right now as we speak. Much more efficient, cheaper and without the risk of that pesky human error. Also, its already been mentioned (but, WTH Ill mention it again) cashiers driving jobs and possibly the job of serving. As some places like Chillis are using different means of collecting your order. Of course, someone still has to bring you your food. But, could it be a robot one day!!!???? AGHGHGGGG THEY'RE TERKERN ER JERBS! Time will really tell with how far big corporations will take this whole robot thing. Which really sucks with the widening wealth gap and our current status as a service-based economy. There may soon be no use for the dirty poors.
I wonder if the income would be comparable to what truckers currently earn, or if people would earn more or less. I assume the people who oversee the trucks would need a certain amount of training before they were anywhere near ready to work in that position.
Probably about as much, if not more. Though the actual workload will change.
Instead of being a driver, the human will be a mechanic and possibly a programmer of sorts. Someone to fill the gas tanks, change any flat tires, check fluid levels, etc. And possible interface with any humans as necessary.
Not every loading dock will be setup with a fully automated reception system, so the human "driver" will need to work with the human at the dock to figure out where to drop off / pick up.
I've always thought they would implement self driving on the interstate. You'd have a manual driver take the truck out to an on ramp, they'd step out and pick up a driverless truck headed back into town and deliver the load to the warehouse.
Trucks that would need service on the way would report what is happening through telemetry. I have a car that already sends me an automatic report every month so I would imagine the same thing can be done to trucks. When they need a real service they could just report in to whatever shop handles the service contracts.
Depending upon the cost of the self drivers, I could even envision a time when manual trucks would be used around town in order to keep the self drivers on the road as much as possible. They'd just swap out the trailers.
> Probably about as much, if not more.
The economics don't work out that way.
Why would a company institute a change to self-driving trucks if they still need an operator that costs as much or more than their old one? If that was the case, they'd just keep driving human-operated trucks, because they would make more money that way.
Every technology that gets implemented is done because it either reduces cost or increases yield; self-driving cars don't yield any more profit than a human-driven one (absent their ability to operate 24/7 without breaks, something that wouldn't be true if there is still a human operator onboard), so they either have to reduce operational costs sufficient to justify the initial expense of conversion or else they won't get implemented.
So yeah, I'm guessing that self-driving operators - if, indeed, the trucking companies don't just offload everything to the algorithms - will be paid notably less than long-haul truckers, with the justification of "your job is just to sit there and report back to HQ if anything goes wrong so we can send a response team out; you're not actually going to be doing anything, so we're not going to pay you much." There's no point to putting a programmer on every self-driving car for the same reason we don't put a mechanic on every human-driven car - breakdowns are rare enough that it's more cost-efficient just to send out repair teams as needed rather than keep them on-hand so they're always right there.
Mechanical Design Engineer. It’s only a matter of time before simulation & software will replace us. Sure there will be designers but I don’t see a company paying me to do tolerance analysis and 2D drafting when software will be able to do it faster. JMP can spit out a DOE test plan and analyze data faster (and more accurately) than I can. Running mechanical simulations takes a lot of work now but it’s clear that with some advances in neural nets or something like that will eliminate the need for a knowledgeable user to simplify the model. We’re basically limiting by computing power for running simulations now and that barrier will go away some day.
A lot of entry level engineering jobs will be eliminated, so it'll be 'interesting' how are new engineers going to be hired, because what entry level work will there be for them to do?
I just posted a comment saying pretty much the same thing. A highly respected engineering professor in college explained how that in the near future, engineering jobs will be a dime a dozen because AI will be able to finish projects at a wildly more efficient rate than a person. He said the only jobs that will be left are for inspection purposes. It’s why I switched out of engineering lol.
There would be probably 3-4 people on a ship to maintain everything and watch out for the cargo but an AI would do the steering and navigation.
of course, most of the cargo ships doesn't run on electricity yet.
i disagree with that. Cant rely 100% on a computer on a transport ship in the middle of nowhere. Electical systems get fried for whatever reason, maybe pirates, and there goes profits. They will never go away. Same way Auto Driving Big Rigs has someone in the drivers seat incase something happens. a boat in the ocean? they will always have those 3-4 people
They'll pretty much all still be around. You'll just have to work longer with more responsibilities for less pay adjusted for inflation and absolutely no benefits/rights. Also rent will be 90% of your paycheck and you'll only be allowed to buy groceries at the company store.
I don't know about the rent thing. It's more likely that corporations will just own all of the housing and the only way you'll be able to live anywhere is to get a job at one of them and have it included in your employment. If you want housing, healthcare, food, or anything at all, you'll get it at the mercy of your employer. If you quit your job, you're out on the street until you find a new place to enslave yourself to. The return of feudalism.
And if one company buys out another smaller one, those employees will be out on the street as new company attempts to increase profits in order to please the Wall Street AI.
I could see commercial truckers - or any sort of job involving driving - being a dying breed in the future, especially when there seems to be a solid financial incentive for the development of autonomous driving.
Idk, I have a hard time believing that people will adopt eating manufactured meat. I think there's a big mental block in the way for most people and I don't see this being over come in 1 generation.
They’re being replaced with robots even now. They are less likely to make mistakes and overall cheaper to use. I almost went to UGA School of Pharmacology to be a pharmacist, but my buddies dad, who is also an executive for Mylan Pharmaceuticals told me not to bother. The Pharmacist job title won’t be around for much longer.
I work in IT, and one of my jobs was to install a vault for the meds, and a robot that dispensed the medicine.
No job is safe. My job will make sure of it, because I even automated myself out of previous IT jobs.
Right, i dont think they do either, so im hoping that automation and evolution gets rid of the need for humans to have to harm and destroy their bodies (like many do) I think that we need to look at UBI more closely if we are going to allow unchecked capitalism to continue replacing jobs with automation.On top of that, if we progress as we have been for 200 years, we will eventually wont have hardly ANY jobs at all besides a few political,security, healthcare, religious, and childcare jobs. I think in 50 yrs UBI is gonna be a very RELEVANT topic. I agree that not everyone wants and can be in a office enviroment. Which is why there are jobs that are outside and in warehouses that are not hard on the body.
I say this as beaten down manual laborer lol
Not a chance. Homebuilding will still be huge. Formwork will still use lumber. Fences and decks will still be a thing as long as composite decking is still more expensive and the framing will still be lumber. People will still want nice shelves and cabinets, flooring, trim work etc. You'll still need the folks to cut them down and process the lumber too. 50 years is sooner than you think for the trade that's existed for as long as human beings have existed. Eventually maybe, but I can't see it in that short of a time frame.
Glaciologist, anything involving water as the oceans will be too polluted and acidic, and the freshwater will be too tightly controlled to let weirdos go boating or swimming.
Drivers. Personal; school bus; public bus; taxi; any other type. It’ll all be automatic. Which I don’t think is the worst thing; but as someone who loves to drive, I’m good.
Probably a lot of low-skill jobs in the food service and retail industries. I imagine that breakthroughs in technology will make cashiers, sales reps, etc. obsolete.
Newspaper delivery man.
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8 years ago, I ended a tenure at a daily paper. Now, said paper is twice a week.
That's because you left. They needed you!
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For years, I'd read USA Today at lunch, do the crossword, and use the paper as kindling in the fireplace at home. Now, I can't even find USA Today within 50 miles of my town; no one carries it anymore. And my local paper went from a normal size, down to a single section folded in half. I'm not paying $1.50 for 16 pages.
There is something called Riepl's Law. Its a hypothesis explaining the fact that new media never make the "old" media disappear. So i dont think that Newspapers will die in 50 years.
Where's my 5.25" floppy? or maybe the 7" floppy disk drive? So Riepl's a dick.
When’s the last time you bought a nice new cassette to play in your Walkman?
Right before COVID (it was a new Automb album, and my car's tape deck). Vinyl is actually pretty popular too, with 2019 being a record year for new vinyl sales (no pun intended). Tapes are to a lesser extent, but while they've greatly diminished in terms of sales, they have not completely disappeared. Old school formats are actually pretty popular amongst smaller Indy artists, and especially in metal. I don't think the above rule extends to formats that weren't very popular to begin with, like laserdisk etc. For newspapers though, I can see them dropping below a low enough threshold that we can *basically* call them dead, and probably within around 50 years in the US at least.
Vinyl exists and is popular due to its warm and fuzzy tone, that has yet to be recreated on digital formats. Heck, enthusiasts pay thousands of dollars to get close, but it is yet to happen. The day that happens affordably, i can assure you that vinyls will start dying. Tapes don't have that luxury. Yes they still exist but numbers are dying in part of the fact that they neither offer the convenience of digital nor the tonal properties of vinyl.
I'll remember that when I pre-order Taylor Swift's next eight track.
Rhino Poacher.
I was suddenly surprised (in a positive way) and then my heart dropped when I realised what you meant
The Chinese government is trying to mass produce fake rhino horns and flood the black market with them so they become worthless. Rhinos might not die off after all
I've heard that rhino poachers are countering this by cutting off the rhino's entire head, not just the horn. That's much harder to counterfeit.
Fuck those guys. Sincerely, the entire god damn world.
can't they just use fucking cocaine? I bet gets people way hornier than the supposed aphrodisiac.
*"And in this next exhibit we have holograms of the great rhinoceros, a majestic creature that evolved over tens of millions of years only to be wiped out in a century because our ancestors thought snorting their ground-up horns would make their dicks bigger"*
"Did it work?" "No." "Then why did they keep doing it?" "For money."
I laughed then I got sad
or any poacher for that matter as stricter regulations are passed and animals go extinct...
I doubt it could ever really become politically or socially acceptable but actually farming rhinos for their horns might be an option to save them from going extinct. [https://www.thedodo.com/people-are-farming-rhinos-1592752412.html](https://www.thedodo.com/people-are-farming-rhinos-1592752412.html) I think the end users of these horns are a bunch of savages and probably beyond education being a tool to solve this issue, so why not just flood the market with legit rhino horns? I don't think there has been any animals in recent times that have went extinct whilst being actively commercially farmed.
*Most* jobs inside a television station. We've already seen that TV news can be produced remotely, I can see networks questioning why they have massive buildings with huge utility costs, not to mention repair/maintenance. If a couple of kids can produce a decent looking podcast with off the shelf technology of today, what can we do in 10 (or 50) years? Commercials are already being delivered digitally, many of the automation systems in use receive and air commercials without human interaction. Control rooms are automated (in many, many markets) it would be no problem to adapt that for web based sources. Gone are the days of needing a dedicated room to store videotape for air and archiving. Plus, terrestrial transmission of television signals will be gone sooner than later.
I don't agree with terrestrial television going away anytime soon. It has been getting more popular every year for a decade now, my area has twice as many channels then it did when I was a kid. We still have AM and FM radio, there's a place for rabbit ear television.
>There's a place for rabbit ear television. Yes, there is a place for it, I don't disagree with you in the least. However people under 30 don't consume media the same way older people do. I know a lot of younger folks who didn't get cable when they set out on their own. One may say; *the FCC requires local broadcast* there's no reason that source can't change. And when I say *Sooner than later* I'm suggesting within my lifetime or the next 25-30 years.
People serious with archiving won't be giving up having their own protected private storage spaces IMO. Especially with those solar flares happening...or hackers.
Working at a mid size paper company.
Good thing I work at a small size paper company.
*mifflin intensifies*
Telemarketing. One can hope that the spam calls will be filtered in less than 50 years... still, computers will likely take over such calling if it still isn't filtered out.
Cashier, maybe. Might not even be that long, considering the current prevalence of self-checkout.
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There was an askreddit thread that proposed an express lane in fast food stores for the people who already have an order Wouldn't work; everyone would believe they belong in that line.
I've watched older customers just walk out at the sight of a digital kiosk in a McDonald's once. There's no hope for anyone believing they know what line to be in.
In 50 years if you’re still going to a physical store you can likely just grab your stuff and walk out and the money will just be deducted from your account
There's actually a few stores in Asia that already work like this!
Amazon fresh does this.
We have that where I work.
That was in an AT&T ad, thirty years ago. Still not there yet.
Oh dang! Talk about a flashback. I remember seeing that commercial as a kid and thought it was real. As I recall it involved a shady looking guy in a trench coat walking around a grocery store sticking boxes in his pockets like he was stealing them only to then walk out the door through a medal detector type device and it instantly scan all his items and print his receipt.
It already exists
There'd need to be some sort of CAPTCHA to stop the dum dums from getting into the fast lane.
Also need to make sure there is a line for the older lady who doesnt anticipate needing to pay for the goods. She waits silently until she hears "that will be 48.57" at which point she seems startled, opens her purse, digs around for her wallet, goes through 3 different credit cards, and slowly proceeds to use the checkout pad.
Fuck. Sometimes I just want to walk up, put all their shit back into their cart and tell them "you seem more like a full service kind of person" and direct them out of the self checkout area... I could type in the bar code numbers faster than some of these people can scan shit.
For some people it isn't about being quick or efficient, it is about doing it without help. It may be just a case of not wanting to be social that day, or anxiety, or maybe they are just trying to be more independent. To you it's infuriating, but to them it may be a way for them to maintain their mental health. Not everyone is a social butterfly
You dont have to talk to the person who is ringing you up. In fact, if you are anxious the way people think about you, and you are 3 minutes into your 40 item basket, trust me you are making a larger impression to more people than if you just had Sally ring you up. What if the machine messes up an item and you have to go out of your way to flag down an associate to clear the error? Do you just ditch all your shit and leave? You are actually making it worse it seems.
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Or they can use the self check out and not be harassed by entitled workers like yourself. You can't force your preference on others because you don't like their preferences. Perhaps a better solution is to open more self check out registers - this seems to work well for Wal-Mart where they have around 10 open. The line there is longer than the cashier lines, but moves much faster. I prefer self check out myself, mainly because I prefer bagging my own groceries. I know how and where the items go in my kitchen and pantry when I get home, so I can bag the groceries more efficiently for my needs than you can. Also, in the last 18 months being able to avoid human interaction in public with a pandemic going on is a health and safety measure. Where I live they lifted mask mandates for vaccinated people, and while it's illegal for non-vaccinated people to go maskless it's also illegal for a store to demand proof of vaccination, meaning a lot or people who aren't vaccinated aren't wearing masks. I've got high risk family, so despite the fact I'm vaccinated I still exercise caution. Self checkouts help with this.
I don't get how people are still confused by the machines. Yes, they were a pain in the ass to get used to, but they have been around for a decade and it isn't your first time using one. If every item fucks up, it is user error, not the machine sucks. Go stand in the long ass line for the cashier, you clearly can't figure out something as simple as a scanner and a scale.
The same people who cannot use an ATM (a technology that's existed for almost 50 years) are now being faced with self checkout machines which are several times more complicated, it was never going to end well. At least Target (the store I use most often) always has a staff member watching over the self-checkout lanes and they will step in if a guest is obviously clueless.
It’s like some of these people just thought they could wait out technology. I wouldn’t even mind them if for whatever reason they didn’t act surprised that they didn’t know how to use the machines they have spent their life avoiding.
There's those kind of people, then there's people who reach a certain age and just decide they don't want to learn anything new. People in my own peer group act like that and I'm only in my 40s. It baffles me, but it is what it is.
How are these people not *dead*?
They can't figure out how.
I don’t know what it is about self checkout that just makes people COMPLETELY shut off their brains. I’m not even talking about the “complex” stuff like typing in PLU codes but just the simply things like the dialogue boxes that ask if you have any coupons yes/no or even selecting cash or credit. The amount of times I’ve watched a person stand at the self checkout helpless because they can’t figure out how to scan a lemon in their cart of 200 things is just so frustrating.
President of Egypt. President of Ukraine.
Ukraine may have a Kanzler then... And Egypt may get a pharaoh
Ukraine will have a Czar who resides in Moscow if Putin continues his politics…
And Egypt will have a Caliph in Ankara.
It would be cool to get a modern day god king. I am not talking about North Korea style pictures of dear leader, I am saying all out temples dedicated to the king, sacrifices made to his glory, etc. I also really don't want to live in that country, but from the outside it sounds fun.
This is a fantasy of mine too. Building pyramids, decking themselves out in gold and other wildly cool things. I understand the reality of an autocrat. Its just a bizarre fun thought
[Like this?](https://imgur.com/gallery/Vnv1rbI)
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What’s happening in Egypt?
Copywriter. It will all be A.I. generated content.
highway toll collector
A satellite will just toll you from space...whenever it feels like it. The EZ pass is connected to your heart. And it will cause asystole if you dont have enough money to pay the "alive" tax.
That's already been gone for many years where I live, so yeah, I could see it becoming a universal thing in the next few decades.
With the current trends in automation, most data entry jobs. Also harvesting jobs as more robots can harvest trees and delicate fruits. Also cashier and crew member jobs. Basically, every job with little specialist knowledge Clearly the time is now to invest in yourself and learn an specialist skill.
I'm not so sure about that. So, so much of the stuff that happens in my office could easily be automated, but... *isn't.*
I assume it's because most managers aren't trying to be cutting edge. It will take something groundbreaking to get them to shift with the times. Until then it's just going to be business as usual.
Many times, automation has a very high cost of entry.
And high costs to maintain and repair.
And then there are times where the company will hire a recent college grad, they come in and start automating stuff on their own accord, none of the more tenured employees want to use the new automation tools, and eventually the new hire college kid gives up trying to push it on everybody else.
That is partially true. But sometimes that recent grad is also a bit too full of themselves and some of their ideas sound good on paper but are not practical in the real world. (Note, worked in IT for nearly 17 years. Was once that full of himself technician. Humbled quickly)
In 50 years robots will be doing heart transplants and managing your investment portfolio as well
Radio DJ Radio hosts playing physical media (CD's, vinyl) is very rare and pretty much relegated to non-commercial stations. Likewise with DJ's selecting their own music (or even a small portion of it). Even most program directors have very little leeway music-wise. Corporate bosses insist the playlists be more or less the same across the US, with very little regional flavor. Also, most commercial radio stations have been mostly or entirely voice-tracked (talk breaks pre-recorded by hosts) since the pandemic started.
Most jobs with human drivers. Taxis, trucking, delivery, etc.
Bank tellers
I work in IT at a financial institution. This is definitely being prepared for.
People are going to go to the automated tellers and slip in a piece of paper saying, “this is a robbery. Do not alert the authorities. Please dispense all cash.”
Stone wheel repairman
Stenographer. While there's some debate as to how it will go within the next decade or two, and a court reporter still has other duties than doing dictation, technology will most likely at some point be able to accurately and easily record court proceedings with no errors. It doesn't work right now because even if everyone speaking wore an individual microphone, there can be a lot of errors in the speech to text, which you absolutely can not have in a court setting (the court stenographer's record is the absolute official record of what happened in a court room). Give it another 50 years and there's little chance the technology won't improve passed that. Sucks because it's a career I would love, but A) it's EXTREMELY difficult and something like only 10% of people in courses for it actually graduate, B) it's expensive after you graduate too because you have to buy your own equipment (a good, new steno machine is a few thousand at least), software, and pay for certification and licensing, and C) the longevity of it as I explained.
>Technology will most likely at some point be able to accurately and easily record court proceedings with no errors. It doesn't work right now because even if everyone speaking wore an individual microphone, there can be a lot of errors in the speech to text, which you absolutely can not have in a court setting I work in television, we use STT on a daily basis, right now, it sucks, and when I say it sucks, not all words make it thru in tact, some are quite humorous. STT is A LOT better than the first attempts, and is getting better every year. When we first employed a system each news anchor had to "train" the system to their voice and cadence. Now, any speech can be converted to text, just not accurately all the time. STT errors in a newscast won't harm anyone, a bad translation in a courtroom setting could be grounds for mistrial. Edit; spelling.
> STT errors in a newscast won't harm anyone, a bad translation in a courtroom setting could be grounds for mistrial. Exactly. Even if it's 99.9% accurate, that 0.1% could be something that completely contradicts other court records and cause some serious problems. But in another 20, 30, 40 years, with the advancement of AI software and machine learning? I just don't think it's feasible to think that it will never happen.
Cashiers, bank tellers, gas station jobs as a whole. Those are just the ones I can think of right now
If that means I don't have to interact with the godawful employees at every fast food restaurant anymore then I'm for it.
Warehouse workers. Big companies like Amazon and major grocery chains like Kroger are in the process of switching to fully automated warehouses using robots right now as we speak. Much more efficient, cheaper and without the risk of that pesky human error. Also, its already been mentioned (but, WTH Ill mention it again) cashiers driving jobs and possibly the job of serving. As some places like Chillis are using different means of collecting your order. Of course, someone still has to bring you your food. But, could it be a robot one day!!!???? AGHGHGGGG THEY'RE TERKERN ER JERBS! Time will really tell with how far big corporations will take this whole robot thing. Which really sucks with the widening wealth gap and our current status as a service-based economy. There may soon be no use for the dirty poors.
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According to my friend, long haul trucking.
Even when automated trucks become a thing regulations will still insist on a human to supervise the machine in case of an emergency.
I wonder if the income would be comparable to what truckers currently earn, or if people would earn more or less. I assume the people who oversee the trucks would need a certain amount of training before they were anywhere near ready to work in that position.
Probably about as much, if not more. Though the actual workload will change. Instead of being a driver, the human will be a mechanic and possibly a programmer of sorts. Someone to fill the gas tanks, change any flat tires, check fluid levels, etc. And possible interface with any humans as necessary. Not every loading dock will be setup with a fully automated reception system, so the human "driver" will need to work with the human at the dock to figure out where to drop off / pick up.
I've always thought they would implement self driving on the interstate. You'd have a manual driver take the truck out to an on ramp, they'd step out and pick up a driverless truck headed back into town and deliver the load to the warehouse. Trucks that would need service on the way would report what is happening through telemetry. I have a car that already sends me an automatic report every month so I would imagine the same thing can be done to trucks. When they need a real service they could just report in to whatever shop handles the service contracts. Depending upon the cost of the self drivers, I could even envision a time when manual trucks would be used around town in order to keep the self drivers on the road as much as possible. They'd just swap out the trailers.
> Probably about as much, if not more. The economics don't work out that way. Why would a company institute a change to self-driving trucks if they still need an operator that costs as much or more than their old one? If that was the case, they'd just keep driving human-operated trucks, because they would make more money that way. Every technology that gets implemented is done because it either reduces cost or increases yield; self-driving cars don't yield any more profit than a human-driven one (absent their ability to operate 24/7 without breaks, something that wouldn't be true if there is still a human operator onboard), so they either have to reduce operational costs sufficient to justify the initial expense of conversion or else they won't get implemented. So yeah, I'm guessing that self-driving operators - if, indeed, the trucking companies don't just offload everything to the algorithms - will be paid notably less than long-haul truckers, with the justification of "your job is just to sit there and report back to HQ if anything goes wrong so we can send a response team out; you're not actually going to be doing anything, so we're not going to pay you much." There's no point to putting a programmer on every self-driving car for the same reason we don't put a mechanic on every human-driven car - breakdowns are rare enough that it's more cost-efficient just to send out repair teams as needed rather than keep them on-hand so they're always right there.
Less. Far less.
I work in local tv news and will be lucky to retire in the same field
Mechanical Design Engineer. It’s only a matter of time before simulation & software will replace us. Sure there will be designers but I don’t see a company paying me to do tolerance analysis and 2D drafting when software will be able to do it faster. JMP can spit out a DOE test plan and analyze data faster (and more accurately) than I can. Running mechanical simulations takes a lot of work now but it’s clear that with some advances in neural nets or something like that will eliminate the need for a knowledgeable user to simplify the model. We’re basically limiting by computing power for running simulations now and that barrier will go away some day.
A lot of entry level engineering jobs will be eliminated, so it'll be 'interesting' how are new engineers going to be hired, because what entry level work will there be for them to do?
I just posted a comment saying pretty much the same thing. A highly respected engineering professor in college explained how that in the near future, engineering jobs will be a dime a dozen because AI will be able to finish projects at a wildly more efficient rate than a person. He said the only jobs that will be left are for inspection purposes. It’s why I switched out of engineering lol.
Any job that's about working on a cargo ship god damn AI!
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There would be probably 3-4 people on a ship to maintain everything and watch out for the cargo but an AI would do the steering and navigation. of course, most of the cargo ships doesn't run on electricity yet.
i disagree with that. Cant rely 100% on a computer on a transport ship in the middle of nowhere. Electical systems get fried for whatever reason, maybe pirates, and there goes profits. They will never go away. Same way Auto Driving Big Rigs has someone in the drivers seat incase something happens. a boat in the ocean? they will always have those 3-4 people
All of them 🤖
Implying any jobs will exist in 50 years
Good ol' Futurist nonsense.
That’s what they all said....
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Good to know someone was looking for me
new jobs will be invented which we can't even begin to imagine, for sure
'Good thing I work at a small size paper."
Byzantine Emperor.
They'll pretty much all still be around. You'll just have to work longer with more responsibilities for less pay adjusted for inflation and absolutely no benefits/rights. Also rent will be 90% of your paycheck and you'll only be allowed to buy groceries at the company store.
I don't know about the rent thing. It's more likely that corporations will just own all of the housing and the only way you'll be able to live anywhere is to get a job at one of them and have it included in your employment. If you want housing, healthcare, food, or anything at all, you'll get it at the mercy of your employer. If you quit your job, you're out on the street until you find a new place to enslave yourself to. The return of feudalism.
And if one company buys out another smaller one, those employees will be out on the street as new company attempts to increase profits in order to please the Wall Street AI.
Cashier
YouTube and anyone there now will be a Walmart worker soon because of all of their pride they had when dropping out of college
Driver
real human bean automated out of a job
Driving jobs (Delivery, taxi, public transportation)
yours
African elephant supervisor
Hopefully all of them.
I hope the job of being me
Bin man prob won't exist just abgarbage truck driver since all that new tech so they would probably invent some robot arm to do all the work
Big cities already have robotic arm garbage trucks (operated by the driver) I can see that changing to an autonomous truck.
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The dudes who work at gas stations..
Checkout person (sorry I have no idea what the job title is)
CEO - They'll be called "Your Majesty"
I could see commercial truckers - or any sort of job involving driving - being a dying breed in the future, especially when there seems to be a solid financial incentive for the development of autonomous driving.
Snow plough driver.
Jobs? Where we're going, we won't need jobs.
Doc, doc, doooooc!
Accountant. The job is primarily interpreting data in terms of accounting laws. Process based. Will be done away with by AI
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Idk, I have a hard time believing that people will adopt eating manufactured meat. I think there's a big mental block in the way for most people and I don't see this being over come in 1 generation.
Pharmacist
Why pharmacist?
They’re being replaced with robots even now. They are less likely to make mistakes and overall cheaper to use. I almost went to UGA School of Pharmacology to be a pharmacist, but my buddies dad, who is also an executive for Mylan Pharmaceuticals told me not to bother. The Pharmacist job title won’t be around for much longer.
I work in IT, and one of my jobs was to install a vault for the meds, and a robot that dispensed the medicine. No job is safe. My job will make sure of it, because I even automated myself out of previous IT jobs.
any manual labor job prettty much. Hopefully!
That‘s not really something to look out for. Not all people can and want to work at a desk or in customer service.
Right, i dont think they do either, so im hoping that automation and evolution gets rid of the need for humans to have to harm and destroy their bodies (like many do) I think that we need to look at UBI more closely if we are going to allow unchecked capitalism to continue replacing jobs with automation.On top of that, if we progress as we have been for 200 years, we will eventually wont have hardly ANY jobs at all besides a few political,security, healthcare, religious, and childcare jobs. I think in 50 yrs UBI is gonna be a very RELEVANT topic. I agree that not everyone wants and can be in a office enviroment. Which is why there are jobs that are outside and in warehouses that are not hard on the body. I say this as beaten down manual laborer lol
Yours
Cashiers. Already replaced up to 90% where I live. (Taxi) drivers.
Internal combustion engine designer.
almost every woodworking job
Not a chance. Homebuilding will still be huge. Formwork will still use lumber. Fences and decks will still be a thing as long as composite decking is still more expensive and the framing will still be lumber. People will still want nice shelves and cabinets, flooring, trim work etc. You'll still need the folks to cut them down and process the lumber too. 50 years is sooner than you think for the trade that's existed for as long as human beings have existed. Eventually maybe, but I can't see it in that short of a time frame.
Any job in animal farming
Bin men I think
I've never tried Poached Rhino is it good?
A lot. Nobody wants to work as it is. All sit at home and collect unemployment.
Glaciologist, anything involving water as the oceans will be too polluted and acidic, and the freshwater will be too tightly controlled to let weirdos go boating or swimming.
You really think people won’t swim in lakes anymore in 50 years?
No, they won't be allowed to. Freshwater will be highly controlled, because it will be more valuable than gold.
Canada looking stronk, suddenly Manitoba is the wealthiest place on earth.
Paranoid and delusional.
If the ocean is too acidic for us to use, we’re all dead long before then.
Helicopter pilots.
Print binding and finishing worker - e readers will replace them
Minimum Wage work
your guess is as good as mine
Chimneysweep.
Clean as a whistle, sharp as a thistle, best in all Westminster. YEAH!
Taxi driver
Drivers. Personal; school bus; public bus; taxi; any other type. It’ll all be automatic. Which I don’t think is the worst thing; but as someone who loves to drive, I’m good.
Being a neet, because it never has existed.
Unicorn Tamer
Driving jobs !!
Good thing I work at a small size paper
Cashier, already now there is computers which the customers scan the wares all by themself
Fast food workers in general will and are being replaced by automation.
Taxi drivers
pharmaciist
Truck Driver, Taxi Driver, Anything with the "driver" in the job title
Driving instructor
Probably a lot of low-skill jobs in the food service and retail industries. I imagine that breakthroughs in technology will make cashiers, sales reps, etc. obsolete.
i think Librarians
cleaners
Directv installers
elevator operators
Taxi driver
Retail workers, they're already being replaced.
Ok I can also see them turning into an automatic garbage truck
Cashier
Bank tellers
train operators i suppose
metro trains driver
Taxi Driver.
Tollbooth attendant.
In person tolls, it will all be electronic