>well-paid IT-jobs will evaporate due to advances in ML
The first thing I started to code in was Delphi 3, which I think was one of the first IDEs to have code-completion, which speeds up development quite a lot. It still required you to manually handle memory.
Today we have much more powerful computers, much more power languages, far more powerful IDEs, tools like code testing, code review and commonly use version control systems - and a shortage of programmers, with their salaries just going up.
I am not saying that AI won't ever make devs obsolete, just that it will be one of the last fields to be made obsolete, as we are likely to integrate it into our tooling (perhaps in the future, rather than write code you review and fix AI generated code).
Sexbots will definitely be a thing, but I still think they will be a niche, because the real sexy times will happen with AR (it is both far more deniable than sex-bots and, according to reviews I have read, way better than internet porn).
As for fertility, that has been in decline in the US for years, and the rest of the west. The average European rate is only a tad above 1.5, so in the future net-import of brains (zombie-mode) will be required, but the world is also full of smart people who wants very much to go to the west.
The main problem will be reaching political consensus. Given that the US have a problem of reaching much, if any, consensus this may be the biggest hurdle.
The first thing I started to code in was Delphi 3, which I think was one of the first IDEs to have code-completion, which speeds up development quite a lot. It still required you to manually handle memory.
Today we have much more powerful computers, much more power languages, far more powerful IDEs, tools like code testing, code review and commonly use version control systems - and a shortage of programmers, with their salaries just going up.
I am not saying that AI won't ever make devs obsolete, just that it will be one of the last fields to be made obsolete, as we are likely to integrate it into our tooling (perhaps in the future, rather than write code you review and fix AI generated code).
Sexbots will definitely be a thing, but I still think they will be a niche, because the real sexy times will happen with AR (it is both far more deniable than sex-bots and, according to reviews I have read, way better than internet porn).
As for fertility, that has been in decline in the US for years, and the rest of the west. The average European rate is only a tad above 1.5, so in the future net-import of brains (zombie-mode) will be required, but the world is also full of smart people who wants very much to go to the west.
The main problem will be reaching political consensus. Given that the US have a problem of reaching much, if any, consensus this may be the biggest hurdle.