Last year, [b]Associated Press[/b] attempted to figure out which jobs were being lost to new technology. [s]The Guardian[/s] reports that after analysing employment data from 20 countries and interviewed experts, they found that almost all the jobs that had disappeared in the past four years were not low-skilled, low-paid roles, but fairly well-paid positions in traditionally middle-class careers. Software was replacing administrators and travel agents, bookkeepers and secretaries, and at alarming rates.
And now, the report says, even doctors face the looming threat of possible obsolescence. Expert radiologists are routinely outperformed by pattern-recognition software, diagnosticians by simple computer questionnaires. In 2012, Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicted that algorithms and machines would replace 80% of doctors within a generation.
[link url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/15/robot-doctors-online-lawyers-automated-architects-future-professions-jobs-technology]Full report in The Guardian[/link]
[link url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/practically-human-can-smart-machines-do-your-job-2]AP analysis[/link]
[link url=http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/doctors-or-algorithms]Vinod Khosla article[/link]