Scientific and technological progress is rapidly transforming the world, the life of people. Changes undergo phenomena that yesterday seemed eternal and unshakable. For example, professions. Some of them are a thing of the past, along with obsolete technologies and production methods.
They can only be remembered
Particularly striking changes in the register of professions occurred at the end of the last century and the beginning of the present. The universal introduction of information technologies, especially in the field of communications and telephony, has contributed to this process. Already during the lifetime of one generation, such once-massive professions as telephone operators and telegraphists disappeared. Now no one sends telegrams and dispatches using the services of a wired, and to a greater extent, cellular telephone connection, the Internet. And almost no one remembers the young ladies working on telephone exchanges. The postal service professions are also undergoing major changes. It is predicted that the postman profession will no longer be in the next decade: letters are no longer written on paper, paper newspapers are being replaced by the Internet and television.
In organizations you will no longer meet representatives of the once very massive female profession - typists. Mechanical typewriters replaced computers. In the same way, the profession of a draftsman, computer operator, copy machine went into oblivion. This work is now being done by computers with the help of professional programs, it requires higher qualifications, and the professions for this activity are called differently.
In connection with the widespread mechanization of labor, there is no need for such professions as, for example, weaver. Modern weaving machinery provides many times more products and their quality than people. The profession of a telemaster goes into oblivion. Tube and transistor TVs live their lives. Now television sets are manufactured using microcircuits, their repair requires the replacement of entire blocks. So soldering, changing lamps and resistors, and other archaics are no longer needed today.
Huge changes have occurred in the industry. For example, in metallurgy, construction you will no longer meet the professions of the forge, catal, and slab. People with these and masses of similar unskilled specialties have been replaced by smart technology.
