| At a previous job there was a museum/display to the previous era of how they produced the newspaper. It has the last master plate, and some photos of how it all looked on the last day. There is a photo of a technician sweeping up on presumably the last day before the plant was shut down. He looked distraught Most of those people retired. The young ones didn't get as gooder jobs, because the system they had mastered was replaced by a different more efficient one. 80% of my skillset has been automated away. However I am lucky in that I have high scale HPC/web experience that is not that readily available in the training set. but for how long? My backup plans involve being a machinist, but there isn't much scope for that (even though I am a reasonable CNC/CAM operator) There is electrical engineering, but that too is not far away from significant upheaval (well more than being completely outsourced to china) I am being replaced, by heartless feudalists, and there is shit all I can do to stop it. |
There's a pretty good documentary showing the last day of linotype typesetting at the New York Times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU