<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The student questioned if he should be studying how to install heating and air conditioning units rather than bothering to master computer science.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Currently manual dexterity is tricky for AI<span class="gmail_default" style=""> so air conditioning repair would temporarily save that student's job, it will certainly last longer than computer programming but in just a few years even that job will go away. I predict the very last Human job to go extinct, if you don't count "the oldest profession", will be that of a nursing home orderly. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span> </b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5300741733859964367"><br>
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