> attempt to retrain and look for another job?
The question is whether there will be a Big Rip type of event, where jobs are being automated faster than most people can retrain.
The question is whether there will be a Big Rip type of event, where jobs are being automated faster than most people can retrain.
For the section of the US between the Hudson river and the SF bay this has been the case for ~20 years. What most 30 year old laid off workers MAY do is very different from what they CAN do. Saying "ohh, just learn to code" isn't helpful to someone worried about making rent this month let alone paying their internet bill.
The one I'm familiar with is a cosmology one, where because of the speed of the increase of expansion of the universe everything literally gets torn apart.
Applied to the work situation it means a future roughly related to the plot of 'Accelerando', and once we hit that kind of rate-of-change all bets are off in the most literal sense.