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Hey, its an will-AI-take-professionals-jobs section (1988). The predictions were pretty good afaic: No, but expert systems remain important; professions who are very systemic might be in danger, professions that focus on creative or otherwise vague aspects are pretty save (Now, this was written long before AI text/image generators, but I assume even these are more a danger for stock photo production)

Zeitliches Durcheinander in dem Technik hilft und verschlimmert.

Learned that sugar used to be less a substance-for-improving-taste, but more a thing-to-show-off/medicine.

Slooooow progress, and rather dry in its writing style, but it keeps being interesting.

Obwohl der Titel erstmal anstrengend klingt, soweit relativ unterhaltsam. Natürlich mit den revolutionären Technologien von damals.

Good so far. Not very academic (which has its pros and cons); Very interesting to learn about the conflict between PC and timesharing models.

Its good but its also very slow to read (despite the language not being very difficult)

Class in the classroom

How to split up work

Power of language; using the opressors language to communicate with each other (here: in Slavery)

everything still impure. Right-wing use of impurity in protect-the-environment debates.

Doctors and Lawyers have sub-professions they rule over; rarely a professions area gets actually split between two equal-in-power professions.

(So, designers, where is your TV show?!)

more struggles. One Mistake and your profession might go bust! Also, it is very useful to have a TV show to teach the public that your profession is awesome.

More frogs

Continues to be interesting

Very interesting, I highlight a lot of stuff. Working in a minor and fought-over profession myself there was so many insightful ideas and familiar experiences put in a new light.

So main hypothesis is that a lot of the changes within professions can be explained by power struggles among professions.