Just think about it
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 by Ric in
yes, think about it..
What computers do mostly, is to replace a person's effort and time in tasks that are repetitive, boring and non-related to actual thinking.
Like the industrial revolution replaced many factory workers with machines, SOME operators are always necessary, the same happens with the computer based productivity improvements in non-labor intensive work, office work and the like.
It is a bit of a case of us versus them, us IT folk, versus them, non IT folk, and our place in business.
Our work is to make some [people] more productive and many more unnecessary.
Both the blog post here from Phil Haack, and the comments in it, talk about valid points, but somehow I would like to go a bit more sci-fi here, a bit more over the edge and make this crazy observation:
Subconsciously, the replaceable business folk are gradually becoming resentful of this and want to keep hold of their jobs by striking back at the programmers with evil thoughts such as this:
"well, they are replacing me, the businessman for a machine soon.. How about we, the businessmen replace the (programmers) people making the replacements with one of their own inventions?"
Evolution dictates that the programmers will have to become more and more businesslike, (as is already the case for so many already) and one day, there will be no business people as we know them today, but IT people who know the business.
Non human and business friendly programmers will still be around, because they are actually needed and will continue to be irreplaceable, the same as we need non business oriented scientists and engineers.
Until machines can think, someone will always have to program them with logic that a businessman cannot make, when that happens, then you will still need educators, a programmer is nothing but someone who turns your fuzzy driveling into something calculated but sensible, so you cannot get rid of the people that make sense.
I would or could make a similar rant about the anti-software poster picture from SalesForce’s adds, but I think you get the gist of it.