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Soon, There May Only Be 2 Types Of Jobs - People Who Code Computers, And People Who Get Bossed Around By Computers

Aug 14, 2014, 01:20 IST

People who know how to program computers have job security, and that probably won't change anytime soon.

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James Preston-Werner, co-founder of community coding startup Github, believes there will only be two types of jobs in the future: people who code computers, and people who get bossed around by computers.

"In the future there's potentially two types of jobs: where you tell a machine what to do, programming a computer, or a machine is going to tell you what to do," Preston-Werner told Bloomberg Businessweek's Joel Stein.

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"You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated."

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