From Newsgroup: comp.programming

As far as I can tell:

The future of software and systems development, i.e. the future for
software professionals (information and software engineers chiefly,
but also so called vertical programming of systems and devices) from
analysis to delivery, is going to be in what we today call industrial automation, but soon will just be *automation*, as there won't be
much production that is not fully automated and fully incorporated
production.

Of course, there is also AI and Data Science that are going to be most relevant, but those are not jobs for the *professional programmer*,
more for the mathematician with maybe some science, and marginally
for the analytics database expert, that itself being more of a
vertical programming scenario.

In a nutshell, the jobs we programmers are going to find, with or
without AI all over the place, and with or without Data Analytics
all over the place, are going to be all those that are relevant to
*Industry 4.0* (i.e. "total automation"): from analysing and designing
the systems, to implementing them, to the robots and cobots, to e.g.
the vision systems, and the access control systems, and whatnot,
nowadays indeed also powered by AI, and the PLCs, and the device
drivers, and of course all the electrics and mechanics, which to
some extent too are about programming, since *we, and only we, know*
*how to overall design and architect increasingly complex systems*:
the functional components, the machine cycles, the data structures,
any integration and interoperation protocols, and so on...

Hope that helps (the youngsters),

Julio
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