[peter12]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

I would never say never, but I honestly can't see the process ever automating itself. Lots of jobs needed for the hardware and software. Designers, layout, device modelling, QA, EDA tools to develop these products, test engineers, some sort of system diagnostics, process engineers, lab operations, product engineeres, marketing, finance, HR, system support, mid level management, IT support, etc etc etc... I didn't even include the companies that support these, like measurement equipment, fabrication equipment... the only thing in that list that may start to get automated out is maybe some of the finance.. the rest needs a person behind it (yes including lab ops)... the world may evolve and specialize but lots of jobs are created for this stuff too.

IQ requirements would rule out about 80% of the population.