[ghurtado]

> I would personally be very happy if my own current job- software developer- were somehow automated out of existence.

Considering that my own personal theory is that software developer (also my profession) is the last job that will ever be automated (there will have to be one last person that writes software to run "the robots" before "the robots" write all their software), I can't say that I share your excitement at this milestone.

But then again, maybe it's simply evolution and nothing to fear, since we are as temporary in the universe as the last species we evolved from.