Outside Silicon Valley is where the real pain is coming. Information technology innovation is pushing digital automation faster and faster into what you can call “dehumaning” - not “dehumanizing.”Dehumaning sounds like exactly what it is - the removal of humans from layers of IT that have, until now, required staffs of humans to keep networks up and running.The ‘cloud’ is the dehumaning center of innovation. It hosts the processes that lead to automatic operation of the software/hardware/access networks that allow the digital world to shed jobs that have employed enormous numbers of people since the start of the 1990s.I am not concerned about people in Silicon Valley losing their jobs in companies that serially over hired all the way through the pandemic.I’m worried about young people who got an associate degree in information technology losing a 90 grand a year tech admin job at some middle America manufacturing business because the applications that person was in charge of are now running perfectly well over at Microsoft We are looking at losing a few million good jobs across the country over the next few years because of automation. We better hope innovation will create new areas to pick up the job losses. By the way, Meta is not a ‘tech company.’ It’s an advertising dependent information platform. Please stop calling companies like Meta, Uber, etc. tech companies. They use tech, They aren’t tech.

Outside Silicon Valley is where the real pain is coming. Information technology innovation is pushing digital automation faster and faster into what you can call “dehumaning” - not “dehumanizing.”Dehumaning sounds like exactly what it is - the removal of humans from layers of IT that have, until now, required staffs of humans to keep networks up and running.The ‘cloud’ is the dehumaning center of innovation. It hosts the processes that lead to automatic operation of the software/hardware/access networks that allow the digital world to shed jobs that have employed enormous numbers of people since the start of the 1990s.I am not concerned about people in Silicon Valley losing their jobs in companies that serially over hired all the way through the pandemic.I’m worried about young people who got an associate degree in information technology losing a 90 grand a year tech admin job at some middle America manufacturing business because the applications that person was in charge of are now running perfectly well over at Microsoft We are looking at losing a few million good jobs across the country over the next few years because of automation. We better hope innovation will create new areas to pick up the job losses. By the way, Meta is not a ‘tech company.’ It’s an advertising dependent information platform. Please stop calling companies like Meta, Uber, etc. tech companies. They use tech, They aren’t tech.

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