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<p>Hi Trent. I'm certainly not a leftist, and no longer the mild
technologist I was, and my Windows Skynet analogy was actually
meant to be serious. The problems I have, in rough chronological
order, are</p>
<p>a) corporate malevolence,</p>
<p>b) governmental malevolence (esp by the left) that dwarfs the
corporate malevolence,</p>
<p>c) the obvious potential of cascading bugs and other misfires,</p>
<p>and d) introduction of new bugs and misfires, as software
"engineers" these days are so in love with their cleverness that
they often can't even program correctly the basic features in
their apps. And the idiotic "features" written in bloated OOP will
magnify horribly.<br>
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<p>How far can disk and memory requirements go when 64bit is no
longer enough to address it all?</p>
<p>Since all this requires higher skill levels and constant
oversight - of multigenerational code, yet - and may require many
man-hours to solve (or resist!) the new issues, I don't see
programming jobs going away anytime soon. Or in our lifetimes.</p>
<p>Dystopia isn't necessarily fear-mongering. Spyware. Malware. NSA.
Face recognition. Excessive copyright enforcement. The Great
Firewall. Corporate/governmental censorship to conform to
repressive "moral" standards around the world.</p>
<p>Man creates nothing that men don't ruin, and preserving freedom
and all its benefits will always be a constant battle just as it
always has been. Expecting the worst along with the best is a way
to stay prepared for the next battles. What sci-fi authors have
always done, we're (sorta) doing here. We're looking before we
leap, cause the leap may well be coming.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/2017 12:19 AM, trent shipley
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<div>A while ago I heard a futurist say that if you wanted
your kid to make money in the future, they should pursue a
creative career. He expected technology jobs to go the way
of manufacturing jobs -- automated out of existence. The up
side is that owners of capital will make MUCH higher
profits, while consumers of IT will save some money. Also,
access to IT should be more democratic since it will not
rely as much on left brain thinking and scarce training.<br>
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Microsoft is hardly alone in trying to make administrators and
programmers obsolete, and the repressive leftist politics or
dystopian fear mongering strike me as burying the
lead--especially if you are a technologist whose job is in the
cross-hairs of economic and technical history.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:34 PM Vara La Fey <<a
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<p class="gmail_msg">Oh. Joy. A Cortana that can write its own
spyware. Windows Skynet. Upgrade today. Or else. </p>
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Yep what we need is smart computers. When all
this started computers were supposed to create
a shorter work week. Now look what we have.
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How long until they teach this one how to
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someone designing this software to act
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