
…r challenge on our hands in bringing together computers and humans in ways that enhance human life. While this challenge is viewed by some as subservient to the creation of “artificial intelligence,” it can also be viewed more prosaically — but with no less reverence — as the creation of a new branch of engineering. Much like civil engineering and chemical engineering in decades past, this new discipline aims to c…
…and thus managed to survive and thrive. In some cases, humans needed to move around geographically. In other cases, humans were able to reinvent themselves, by either adopting new skills, or by looking for other jobs or industries whose required skills were similar to those used in previous ones, or any skill that they could easily adopt within some basic training. In the most dramatic cases, people were just out of the labor market for good — this was usually th…