few days ago someone told me a story that has given me much food for thought. This person works in an industrial chain in an SME, is responsible to adjust certain parameters of the production to the needs of the moment. So far so good, except that it does manipulating levers.
This person has no special training as an engineer or similar, has just learned his trade and has done well. Is able to recalculate the necessary adjustments quickly and until now was recognized and appreciated his work. The problem is that for a time the chain control is done via computer, fitted by a foreign company and adaptations are made from the remote modem. No matter how fast they make their calculations and the handling of machinery, this person is unable to compete with the automatic processes now performed on demand changes.
the other hand, this person is impossible to acquire training in this new way of working. The company, which is a manufacturer, because training does not only interested in establishing marketing channels. And on the other hand, no similar businesses in Andalusia and probably not in Spain where he could relocate the workforce.
Well, a job that becomes obsolete, shall walk thinking. Things progress, right? But this has led me to a disturbing question about the future of computing: how should orientate the local business community to maximize our competitiveness in the future?
It is not hard to imagine that the foreign company takes all via modem and leave us without work is an Oracle or SAP or IBM ... We are returning to high-performance computer with proprietary software and support full stack or the subscription of a service on a remote system maintained by others, which is summarized at the end always in a "you do not touch that and we take us. "
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law of the pendulum and that these have been able to handle the language of senior management and others less so. What will happen to those who do not work in these companies? Will there be room for us? "swing the pendulum the other way they do it all?
For now, I reaffirm my belief that we must foster competition so that only survives balancing progresses and both moderately, if not think so, ask yourself why is IIS virtual servers, born android why, why Microsoft has released Windows 7 ... The problem is that you create monopolies, that competition is eliminated, Why what happens in the company of the person who said at the beginning when the control of the production is dark magic and those who have decided to charge double for it? And if the service is good, will there alternatives?
And another point which is reaffirmed in me to be away from being pressed-button or pull-lines-of-code and it is essential that we understand really what we're doing, how we have under your fingers. Only thus can we ensure the capability of becoming, to adapt to the unstoppable progress. Only thus will we earn the right to participate in the next technological revolution.
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