I'll never forget this exchange I had with a CS professor:

Me: ... but, in the future, everyone will learn how to program. Neal: no, in the future, no one will need to know how to program.

I suspect Neal was right, though I dislike the idea strongly.

Anyhow, machines will probably prove to be smarter with such details. So accountants can likely just shift the cost to another column. (Sorry to anyone who can conceivably be replaced by a robot.)

Not to sound like such a douche: parallelism, concurrency, distributed process; can raw human "wet" computing ever pretend to compete with clean binary process in such gambles?