“Thanks to the invention of spreadsheets, we’re going to throw so many bookkeepers out of work!”
“Actually, thanks to spreadsheets we’re going to see the growth of a new cohort of annoying people know as ‘fleece vest bros.’”
Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world.
This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects.