Originally Posted by
Bigapplepilot
20 years is too soon for most professions I think. Youtube 'Humans Need Not Apply' and Google 'the Technological Singularity'. This will affect most, if not all jobs, not just pilots.
Truth, I'm thinking hard about whether I dare quit my career in automation when I make captain, no shortage of demand for automation. Repetitive jobs and dangerous or super-critical-precision jobs are the ones getting automated first. Third-world countries are the most ripe for automation, they are way behind and labor costs are rising.
The next 15 years will be a boom time for automation and for pilots, then I'll retire, phew. But I do worry about the younger pilots.