I completely disagree that "complete" automation is inevitable. Even the newest of new airplanes being built today don't don't auto flighplan, auto pre-flight, auto walk-around, auto taxi, auto dock at the gate, auto takeoff, auto configure, listen to a controller's instructions and do them (flip side for ATC ... they don't/can't control aircraft without a pilot), auto land (all weather/wind conditions that humans can land in), auto land when the ILS critical area isn't protected, automatically take care of all emergencies, avoid obstacles/birds, see and avoid, follow traffic visually to a runway, visual approach land, keeping takeoff traffic insight on the runway while given takeoff clearance on the same runway, auto abort, know when a cloud just isn't a cloud even though it isn't painting anything on the radar, on and on and on and on ...

Training new pilots on moving maps and glass has NOTHING to do with your argument. My non-glass airplane does the same thing my glass airplane does ... just with more switches and analog technology and displays! But BOTH still have to be flown ... by hands of a pilot, or thru the fingers of a pilot using switches/FMS key strokes.

Dude, you hate this industry. You made a bad decision getting into it. And you consistently want to bring us down so you can feel better about your decision to leave it. It isn't for you. Stop the hate. Move on, the people on here who love their jobs, and are thankful they don't fly a desk.