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by bluefirebrand 18 days ago
What industries and professions has software actually made extinct?

The result of most software has been "you do basically the same job except now you do it on a computer"

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Computer used to be a job for a cadre of women who did math. That job went away when computers, the physical machine, got enough software that those women were no longer needed.