Computers are booting their bosses
News.com, September 9, 2003:
"DEMAND for executives in the information technology sector has fallen to its lowest point in 11 years, as computers become robust enough to eliminate the functions of many of their minders, according to a survey. The EL executive demand index for the IT sector fell ... to nearly its lowest level since 1992. Rapid advances in systems engineered by IT executives over the past decade had eliminated many of their own corporate IT jobs..Whereas 10 years ago computer systems required constant nursing from bug-fixing to reprogramming, they now require far less human involvement...Computers systems have finally become robust enough to eliminate many of their minders..."
That last line has severe shades of 'Matrix' or 'Terminator'... [Although one would look at PK Dick, for one, as the progenitor of the "machines make their creators redundant" scenario.]
"Robust enough to eliminate their minders" is perhaps a subconscious reflex, a shiver at the prospect of being made redundant by the systems we foster, a reminder of the inexorable drive to complete automation and the consequent de-humanization, well progressed.
Enjoy the irony while you can.
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