"without actually risking a prediction"
The optimist in me suspects the report's authors, not knowing who to believe, opted to acknowledge us naysayers. Only idiots would enact policies based on a wildly optimistic Plan A with no fallback.
Automation is often counterproductive, as anyone in IT knows.
The tinfoil hatter in me says they're hyping AI and self-driving cars to distract the plebs from the real job-killer, a phenomenon our friends at NakedCapitalism have dubbed "crapification": optimization for low cost without regard to fringe benefits like quality, reputation, morale, flexibility, alternate supply chains, a health domestic economy, etc. Automate what can be cheaply automated. Source from the cheapest country. Eliminate unnecessary labor (QA, engineering, cleaning). Cut all features used by less than 20% of customers (yo, Apple). Replace distinct products with cookie-cutter variations (more trendy colors!!!)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
