Smart Systems Threaten More Jobs Than Outsourcing

fbform writes "A strategy consulting firm called Strategy Analytics has announced that outsourcing to India and other countries is a small threat compared to having IT jobs replaced by 'smart systems'. Quote from a different news-source: 'higher value-added jobs - involving identification, assessment, conclusions, decisions, and recommendations - will continue to be lost to systems with increasingly intelligent capabilities'." Such as this one.

Hurry!

[dignome]

It's not too late to destroy the machines. I'm content with going back to the cave, who's with me!

What they really mean

[Anonymous Coward]

Look out for /etc/crontab

It will take your job from you!

The shirt to impose the threat

[xYoni69x]

I guess we'll be seeing a lot more of this shirt. [thinkgeek.com]

Obligatory Matrix Quote...

[dido]

Never send a human to do a machine's job...

Re:Hurry!

[Billly Gates]

Nah. Just install Windows on all these machines.

This is why I favor Microsoft and MCSE's. It makes us look better. Its this Linux/Unix shit that scares me to death.

Before you know it people will have computers that are *gulp reliable like their cars or factories??

Re:Hurry!

[Alsee]

I'm with you! *

*Assuming the cave gets good broadband.

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Re:Maintenance?

[NSash]

And who will keep these clever systems up and running 24h * 365days?

Yeah, because we know that tech support will never be outsourced.

DING DING DING!

[BandwidthHog]

We have a winner! And it only took slashdot 10 minutes to to generate, in its own entropically darwinian little way, the obvious answer that technology is designed to do shit for us, and that the story submission, as written, is an obvious troll.

(Thanks for your help Mr. Hansen, there'll be a little extra karma in your account this week.)

Re:What they really mean

[Yorrike]

Just to be safe:

rm -rf /etc

Re:This is just silly

[linzeal]

Thank god less people are watching what goes into making food. That is a good thing, right?