My phone can beat master chess-players. My $600 Thinkpad: grand-masters
Bring it up to a grand, and you can buy a desktop computer that would crush Deep Blue, running in the background, while your are reading and posting on ZDNet.
Skilled workers are becoming obsolete. Know any draftsmen? There were floors of them on my job 20 years ago. None now.
Don't study tax preparation as a career. Accountants? One person outworks a dozen of them just 20 years back too. Give that a while and we'll see it get even more severe.
The building trades still have to be done. But, if you've watched "This Old House", however, you know how machines and equipment have cut labor a lot.
We have an economy based upon a way of life that is ending fast for most people.
