>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.

You could be right.