could your job be done by a powerful computer?

it could not naturally inseminate goats

what if they were using nanotechnology?

or if the computer was really goat hot?

na-a-a-a-anotechnology

i'll get me coat

It would have to be a very powerful computer

hahaha i met a bright-eyed young engineer at work who told me he'd come up with a logarithm that "does what you guys do"

There are a few recurrent aspects of my job that could totally be done by a script or handful of scripts and it is immensely frustrating to me that they are not. Like, that's what computers are for, surely, to do tedious repetitive tasks. It's 2013. What the fuck.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-for-the-luddites.html

i met a project management guru the other week who is flatly, calmly convinced that robots will replace at least 50% of the jobs people currently have and that it would have happened sooner except no one knows how to replace the lost demand

maybe we can find aliens to buy our products and let the preponderance of humanity starve