Such jobs would then be gone, to be replaced by jobs requiring much more sophisticated mathematical training. The mathematics needed for these machines, as was case with engines, has been the main impediment to actual wide-scale implementation of such robotic mechanisms. Recently, it has become clear that the key mathematics is available, (the mathematics of algebraic and geometric topology, developed over the last 80 - 90 years), and we have begun to make dramatic progress in creating the programs needed to make such machines work. Because of this, we have to anticipate that later generations of students will not have the options of such jobs, and we will have.
