It will be general stuff like working well with people or being good at breaking down technical problems, not specific tools or specific domains of software development - 2050 is too far away for us to guess what people will be working on and with what tools.
Yeah but only the riches will be able to get their hands on a genuine, working Famicom, a fabulous machine made by the legendary Japanese company Nintendo, which was wholly destroyed during the third world war. And only few have the privilege to locate and actually PLAY a Super Mario game on a genuine Famicom with genuine original controllers.
Parker earns his bread and butter as a System Operator, but in his other life he hunts down ancient consoles, cartridges and other gadgets. Now he has a new task: "borrow" a genuine Super Mario cartridge from Mr. Yamato in New Tokyo (to be continued...)
Can confirm... we had a GE CNC machine made in 1970 running our 50 HP Lathe in the gear shop I worked at. It used mylar tape, as PUNCH tape, not magnetic. If you have something working in a small job shop, you risk the business if you "upgrade" it, and scrap a batch of $10,000 parts because the new system isn't programmed exactly right.
Someone will need to keep the old stuff alive. It might be 1980s-2000 vintage logic controllers in emulation by 2050, though.
Pretty much the same as right now, or 200 years ago:
The ability to learn new skills on short notice.
Grit.
Emotional and intellectual maturity.
Most everything else is just details.
That said, there will likely be plenty of Enterprise Java, C, hardware, and whatnot lying around that needs old folks like us to maintain it. Those big AI models are gonna have to run on top of some hardware somewhere, after all.
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And also repairing ancient electronics.
Parker earns his bread and butter as a System Operator, but in his other life he hunts down ancient consoles, cartridges and other gadgets. Now he has a new task: "borrow" a genuine Super Mario cartridge from Mr. Yamato in New Tokyo (to be continued...)
Someone will need to keep the old stuff alive. It might be 1980s-2000 vintage logic controllers in emulation by 2050, though.
The ability to learn new skills on short notice.
Grit.
Emotional and intellectual maturity.
Most everything else is just details.
That said, there will likely be plenty of Enterprise Java, C, hardware, and whatnot lying around that needs old folks like us to maintain it. Those big AI models are gonna have to run on top of some hardware somewhere, after all.
How do you define intellectual maturity?