The Amish must be right. Saw this coming long ago and changed my career path to suit. PLC, DCS, supervisory control and data acquisition systems (that I've worked with for decades) will be embedded in more and more systems. M2M connectivity, wireless and nanotechnology is becoming more pervasive. There will always be strong demand for technical people to engineer, install, maintain, repair and modify these systems. Automation is paving the way for your progressive utopia, so a larger percentage of people can spend more time pursuing their artistic selves, instead of you know, working. The only displacement/suicide is allowing the engineering to be outsourced by (GE, UTI, HON, Microsoft, etc..), to countries and people who come here for engineering degrees in our overpriced universities and then work for half the salary,  pushing Americans out of work for the benefit of the stockholders and the tax incentives the left is always crying about.

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