Who automates the automators? For a lot of people the future seems uncertain: automation may eat their jobs. Old and new industries are ripe for disruption: transportation, healthcare, education, finance, law and even the culinary industry are being automated as we speak. When chauffeurs and truck drivers fear that they won't be able to hitch a ride into the future, should the automators perhaps wonder... when is it our turn to be automated? Who automates the automators?
Martijn Dashorst takes a look at the future of the programmer: are we also without a job when the last doctor, lawyer, 3-star chef and driver have been automated?
2. MARTIJN
DASHORST
Martijn Dashorst has been involved with
Apache Wicket since it was made open
source over ten years ago. He is a proud
developer for over 18 years. At Topicus he
helps maintain and create Wicket
applications for the majority of educational
professionals in the Netherlands. Martijn
has evangelised Wicket at numerous
conferences, including JavaOne, Devoxx
12. "IN 5-10 YEARS THERE WILL BE
NO MORE PROGRAMMERS:
USERS WILL BUILD SOFTWARE
THEMSELVES"
– MY PROFESSOR IN 1990
FOTO: MARKUS SPISKE
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14. WORLD POPULATION AND
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT INDEX
Abraham
Buddha
Confucius
Jesus
7000
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4000
3000
2000
1000
0
2000 1500 1000 500 0 500 1000 1500 2000
100
0
200
300
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600
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1000
Mohammed
Roman
Empire
Mongol
Empire
Ottoman
Empire
Steam Engine
Renaissance
source: "The Second Machine Age", Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
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by Quill Connect, an application powered by Narrative Science Quill™. Quill Connect examined your tweet history to open a
window into your own Twitter performance as well as a picture of what you and your followers are talking about and
sharing. Quill examined a total of 12,016 tweets from you and your most recent followers.
We can start with your standing in the "Twitterverse" in general. Your Twitter career spans eight years and you tweet
more than most of your followers. You tweet 22 tweets a week while your followers average 4 per week. Further, you
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users measured by followers.
Your Twitter activity this week
You sent out 33 tweets this week, 15 fewer than last week, but above your weekly average.
What do you and your followers tweet about?
Looking at your history, you're most
focused on Business & Technology,
Politics, and Science. Tweets in your top
topic, Business & Technology, are mostly
positive in tone. Your important topics
match those most tweeted about by
followers who are similar to you. The
chart shows the different topic
distributions for you, your followers and
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What is the sentiment of
your tweets?
Your tweets don't skew positive or
negative and that neutrality puts you
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Your most influential new followers
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@weird_sci (http://twitter.com/weird_sci)
188,759 followers
Popular topic: Science
Twitter bio: @SpaceX Engineer & @MIT PhD Tweeting Weird &
Wonderful #Science Author: http://t.co/sdWa5mCX9l
New followers focusing on similar topics
Out of your most recent followers, these followers tweet
about the same topics as you.
@aniketvarma12
(http://twitter.com/aniketvarma12)
51 followers
Popular topic: Business
Twitter bio: Get Crowdspell, the most amazing wordgame,
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