Scientific and technological progress is rapidly transforming the world, people's lives. Phenomena that only yesterday seemed eternal and unshakable are undergoing changes. For example, professions. Some of them are fading into the past along with obsolete technologies and production methods.
We can only remember them
Particularly striking changes in the register of professions occurred at the end of the last century and the beginning of the current one. The widespread introduction of information technologies, especially in the field of communications and telephony, contributed to this process. Already during the lifetime of one generation, such once mass professions as telephone operators and telegraph operators have disappeared. Now no one sends telegrams and dispatches using the services of wired, and to a greater extent - cellular telephone communication, the Internet. And now almost no one remembers the young ladies working on telephone switches. The postal profession is also undergoing major changes. It is predicted that in the next decade there will no longer be a postman profession: letters are no longer written on paper, paper newspapers are being replaced by the Internet and television.
In organizations, you will no longer find representatives of the once very massive female profession - typists. Mechanical typewriters have replaced computers. In the same way, the profession of a draftsman, computer operator, and copying machine has disappeared into oblivion. This work is now performed by computers with the help of professional programs, it requires higher qualifications, and the professions for this activity are called differently.
Due to the widespread mechanization of labor, there is no need for such professions as, for example, a weaver. Modern weaving technology provides many times more product volume and quality than a human. The profession of a telemaster also disappears into oblivion. Tube and transistor TVs are living out their days. Now television sets are manufactured using microcircuits; their repair requires replacement of entire blocks. So soldering, changing lamps and resistors and other archaics are no longer needed today.
Huge changes have taken place in the industry. For example, in metallurgy, construction, you can no longer find the professions of furnace, steel, plate. People with these and masses of similar unskilled specialties were replaced by clever technology.
Who's next to take off
Today, many professions are quickly robotized and in the very near future they will become endangered. Even those like the surgeon, whose work is increasingly performed by robots. What can we say about the work of milkmaids, cashiers, firefighters and military men, nurses? They are already being replaced in many ways by high-tech mechanisms. Experts predict the disappearance of the profession of a journalist working in print media. The profession of a librarian will also become archaic.
