What most schools don't teach

[MENTION=7446]Words[/MENTION]: If computer programming becomes increasingly influential, then companies will come to incorporate business models around programs in order to increase efficiency and cut costs. An excellent example of this that ties your speculation with [MENTION=1]Fiel[/MENTION]'s comment about automation is the automotive industry and how manufacturing is largely, if not basically completely robotic when it comes to manual labor. Consequently such actions will socially drive people to pursue academic endeavors (a trend already in progress) so that they find themselves as being the ones who "own" the means of production and not the ones who find themselves at risk of being replaced by a machine. One would naturally assume that pursuing more selective and prolonged degrees has correlation to insulation from automation, however innovations such as the Pyxis have put pharmacists out of desirable jobs in hospitals (a PharmD is a pharmacist degree, is considered an advanced degree, and requires extra years of schooling). I find it ironic that an increased integration of technology facilitates and drives people to pursue knowledge (perhaps advanced degrees (knowledge and school education are insinuated to be related, but I believe are mutually exclusive concepts)) as it makes all standards of what constituted useable and effective knowledge obsolete. My thoughts on the video when I get back.

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