We cannot make the assumption that all are not going to transition to a new job or that the transition will happen instantly. People hold on to old or current technology for a period of time before that technology passes off into history. Case in point how many people still write COBOL, while other rave on about COBOL being dead? It is not dead and some would say it is not even sick, but doing great. Old technology lives on. How many have a transistor radio?

And also we need to understand the adaptive abilities of the human mind and being. Given that you have to change to survive people change. Are they untrainable or incapable of change? The might be resistant but not incapable. Here we come to a point a couple of decades back tot he understanding that all office work needed to be done on computers and no longer limited to paper. Some resisted to the point of saying that if the job required them to use one of "those ^&5!@# things" that they would quit and go where they would still be appreciated. We moved to the new technology and NONE of them left and one or two quickly became proponents of computer use because they saw the possibilities the new technology presented. NONE of the staff were incapable of a transition, they all made it.

And does the introduction of new technology cause loss of job? Not always. It can lead to more being employed, and maybe for the first time relieving people of garbage tasks and enabling them for the first time ever to do what they would really like and were trained to do.

M.