> What about knowledge work? Employees in the tech, finance and any desk job industry aren't performing their job using an ipad or phone.
You might be surprised. I have several coworkers who are doing Olympic gymnastics to get away with using iPads as primary devices. There's only a few of them right now but they are multiplying rapidly.
> Wouldn't the tech industry have an incentive to also encourage a continuous supply of skilled labour that can use a pc effectively?
Yes, but that sounds like a problem for the Zoomers and Alpha. That sounds dismissive but I'm not sure we could solve it if we wanted to. It's too far away. By the time it becomes a problem maybe everyone can work on tablets, or phones.
I maintain that the current model of "software development" is more like "software manufacturing" and will be automated away in the future to the point we wouldn't recognize it today. In 50 years software professionals will look back on how we work today and wonder how we got anything done. Not too different from the way we look back on the 1970s today. How the heck does a slide rule work anyway? Can you imagine working with punch cards?
Wouldn't the tech industry have an incentive to also encourage a continuous supply of skilled labour that can use a pc effectively?