When technology takes over a field, there has to be people on the IT side to support the IT infrastructure, the IT programming, and industries will spring up too, from the resulting consolidation and / or industries that will spring up. On the IT side also, because of rump's policies, a lot of companies hired/brought in workers from India/etc. to perform a lot of their IT work. Now, a lot of these people can't get their visas extended and thus are leaving the US (where rump is a hypocrite, he still uses foreign workers), thus the IT work may go to US workers here in the US or subcontracted out overseas.
Other disciplines will spring up too, as the IT components (cpus/hardware, programming, etc.) continue to get developed with more capabilities such as being merged with sensor technologies (wide open field) and other fields not even visualized 5-10 years ago. AI will help a lot, believe it or not, coming from an IT guy like myself, as the demands in programming exceeds the ability of programmers to keep up. The AI component will help satisfy 80% of programming requests that current IT programmers can't keep up with (the workload on IT programmers has been jumping by massive percentages, we can't keep up), so AI will help offset/offload some of the maintenance component of IT programming demands while freeing up critical manpower so that IT programmers can concentrate on continuing to think, to develop better programming languages, to code better programs than what is currently out there today (that is, 80% of most coding is mundane, typical, the 20% left is hard, logic-wise, coding that probably never has been done before).
Remember, a lot of coding has never been attempted or coded before. Thus, it's not like you can grab a manual and code it by the 'book'...it's never been coded before. A lot of the fields when I first started coding didn't even exist...the internet as it is today didn't even exist. Part of my overall work was to facilitate the development and marketing of the internet in my company to the commercial marketplace, and this required a whole new methodology to handle the concept of data vs. voice.
Some disruption will of course occur in areas where the jobs are 'mechanized' (the term we used). Mechanization occurs all along the entire chain from the customer first calling in for a service to the very tail end of billing the customer. It also supports the (mechanization) ongoing maintenance of the network and other support functions as well as developing better functions since so much cpu power is available, e.g., in short, I'm saying here that new systems, new programs, etc. will have to be established to take advantage of these new features, etc.
Enough. I am sorry I wrote too much and too long...I'm an old IT guy from almost the beginning, so ...
Take care.
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