In a recent interview on Bloomberg TV, Cuban warned that even people with in-demand skills like computer coding could soon be displaced.
“That might have been a great job a few years ago, but you might be out of work in five years,” he said, citing what he called “the automation of automation,” where computers learn how to write software better than humans can.
“We’re going to have a lot of displaced workers — the nature of work is changing,” he said.
Read on for the skill, and let me know in the discussions what you think. I believe he’s right for the short term, but for the long term? I’m not quite convinced.
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