Pilots ability to stick their heads in the sand and pretend they won't eventually be obsolesced by technology is legendary.

Gates said most people overestimate how much progress will happen in year and underestimate how much progress will happen in a decade. ALPA didn't have much luck saving the flight engineer; I'm not sure why everyone is convinced they will save the SIC. Guess who they will come for after that?

All roads point to a society that needs fewer pilots.