Good post making the following point and then expanding on it: "Don't let anyone tell you different: there is no such thing as a separate 'infrastructure phase' in technology. The tech industry loves our neat narratives - first comes infrastructure, then applications follow. It's tidy, linear, and completely wrong." I would add: what we are learning today - not just in tech, but across the board - is becoming tomorrow's infrastructure. We'll still need a few experts to build that infrastructure, but mostly we don't need that sort of work any more. My first job in tech was 'computer operator' - imagine! We needed people specifically to operate computers. Elevator operators, typists, switchboard operators - gone. No, now we need people to do the new applications - but they're evolving as fast as the infrastructure, alongside it. Translators, copy editors, illustrators - no longer needed. Even my current job - programmer, researcher, journalist, educator - is being replaced. Becoming part of the infrastructure
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