Computer God and the Escape from Reality

This part - about professionalization and automation -- feels especially fresh: "This process by which the intellectual capacities of a particular job are turned into processes that could theoretically be subject to automation is also known as professionalization. For Industry 4.0's purposes, which is positioned as a general upgrade of the current world, it is imperative that labor supply quality improves.

Professionalization is a great bargain for many. Wages rise, in exchange for the worker having to become more skilled and educated. The standards of labor rise, thanks to the increase of technique and information available to the worker. The public gets better services and goods.

This also makes the processes of labor vulnerable to automation as a matter of course. A job that you can learn to do, that has set rules, processes, orders, can theoretically be automated. As long as you don't need to use your hands too much, or aren't reliant on snap judgment, the wonderful pattern detection and signal/noise filtering of the human brain, your skills are potentially automatable.

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