I believe more jobs are lost in the industrialization of factories than in software development. My uncle is a manufacturing engineer who designed those wonderful huge pieces of equipment that do everything from manufacture carpet, make vinyl flooring, to precision metal cutting. More jobs were lost after the implementation of such equipment than when any computer program went into use. The only problem is that it turned out to be more expensive to implement changes in design than when it was done by manual labor and the companies incurred huge expensives in the process. They save $ for a few years and then incur tremendous costs for redesign and retooling in cycles to keep up.

>>Its very different. In the computer scenario, we are eliminating a human being from a mundane and difficult manual process.
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>While some, if not most, of the jobs we are eliminating may be mundane and difficult, that job was paying somebody's bills and putting food on the table.
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>>In production scenario, we are taking a human from a process but giving their responsiblites to another human because that second human happens to live on the other side of an imaginary line drawn on our globe because, apparently, the human on the other side of the border is worth less in wages, reducing costs for the entire operation.
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>>For the record, I don't support the idea that the worth of a human being's labor is dependant on their lattitude and longitude.
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>Good point.