Amazon Go And Self Driving Cars: Are We Headed To An Automated Future?

[vivster]

Teeqoz said:

vivster said:

Of course not. We invented automation just for fun. In a few years someone will reveal that it was all a joke and we will go back to the stoneage.

OT I very much welcome this future. As soon as you don't need I driver's license anymore I will get my first car. And as a network admin I'm not worried about my job in the next 40 years.

Wouldn't network administration et. al. be something that would actually be not too difficult to break into easily discernible logic for a computer so that networks can, well, administrate themselves?

 

But of course, having the capability doesn't mean we'll use it immediately. We have the technological capability to do away with a crap ton of jobs right now, but the process is slow.

Cisco and the likes are trying to sell us "self administrating" networks for years now. The truth is you still need people with a deeper understanding of how a network works and to conceptionalize a working one. There is still very much incompatibility between vendors, things break, weird bugs and the fact that pretty much every business lags behind current technology by at least 5 years.

Networking certainly will go towards automation within the next two decades but you need people to code and customize that automation as well. With the gigantic field that networking is there will always be things that are either too old or not worth to automate.

Network admins might become fewer but that leaves the more experienced people with better opportunities. So if you're in networking right now , you have a good chance of getting a job in the industry for a long time.