[jest3r1]

This.

It may take a couple more decades but it really does feel like today's Programmer will become yesteryear's factory worker.

A large chunk of what we're building is rebuilds, or maintenance, or minor upgrades. Every market is saturated. We keep ourselves busy building the same things, solving the same problems over and over, with the latest and greatest "stacks".

Post secondary education is churning out more and more programmers, and the available programming tasks continue to move towards mundane repetition.

I wonder if the new technological revolution you mention will simply be more globalization?

Manufacturing in China will eventually move to "cheaper" countries. Factory workers in today's established manufacturing centers around the world will want a better life for their children, and push them into STEM. We'll lose our jobs overseas. It happened here. It could happen there.

Perhaps it's already happening?