Aww man. We'll never get a raise from that penny pinching dwarf.

There is an idea from computer engineers about the "singularity" where human and machine ability will converge. That will squeeze people out of a lot of jobs, but also open new ones. The reason pilots will be removed from the plane(although the fact that they keep conductors is a boggle that I don't understand and does make me feel better) is that I find it hard to believe a pilot can honestly say that in flying from point A to B. They are even close to task saturated a majority of that time. From a management view, the thing to do would be to have them working more planes which have schedules that will stagger the workload and make the "pilot" spend more time on critical functions. Eventually they will have us looking like controllers at any of the world's busiest airports, but all the time 24-7.


And that is not even mentioning the neural augmentation to improve human data processing and decision speed. When I think about it I don't know if it will totally suck or be awesome. I hope I get to see it though. I'm putting my brain in a space ship and I'm outa here if I do.