WILL CHANGE BUT NOT OCCUPATIONS —”It seems plausible that the future, too, wil

http://www.voxeu.org/article/technological-progress-thing-pastTECH WILL CHANGE BUT NOT OCCUPATIONS

—”It seems plausible that the future, too, will create occupations we cannot imagine, let alone envisage.”— Joel Mokyr

But have professions really changed in 2500 years?

Looks much more like a limited set of roles adapting to technology.

All we seem to see is shifting to increasingly abstract tools, and abandoning the tail jobs as utility of tail technologies dissipate..

Tech changes, But do occupations?

Research, Invention, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Production, Distribution, Trade, and Consumption, and Reproduction all continue.

Those are our Occupations. Technology is merely a product.

What about Disciplines? Coercion by Force, Coercion by Exchange, Coercion by words.

We have constant disciplines and occupations, but the technology merely rolls on through them.

We have made the earth our anthill.