"If, as is likely, that's generally true for open source companies, it means they will need to displace around $10 billion of proprietary business in order to achieve a billion-dollar turnover." No wonder IT is on the bottom end of the totem pole. I can't think of any other industry that works as hard as we do to devalue/put ourselves out of a job.

Developers getting paid to do work? I thought we were smarter than that.

I know this is probably flamebait, but, it seems like there is no other industry that works as hard as we do to put ourselfs out of jobs.

The depiction of math education in Star Trek was great - you know, the scene where the youthful Spock is answering math questions prompted by a screen in front of him, instructors observing overhead. Something akin to this would be pretty sweet. Where you could whiteboard out stuff all day in a high fidelity environment that uses OCR and AI to keep testing you on your weak points until you become stronger in each particular subject area. Something like this would ensure that you truly do have an understanding of everything before moving on. It could also use this information collected about you to introduce you to new topics in other subjects like physics based on your current understanding. Concepts could be masterfully articulated and narrated by famous voice actors like Morgan Freeman ect. A taxononomy/hierachy of subjects and concepts could be traversed to create unique learning programs when achievement is unlocked through true understanding rather than letter grades. Kind of like leveling up in an RPG.. would make things fun.

So then, what is the difference between a human 'race' and a dog 'breed'? The two are synonymous?