We should be realistic in that 40-50 year old truck drivers and coal miners won't become computer programmers or technologically literate on this scale.
Presuming we need computer programmers in the future. There is a good chance that self generating (creating) AI handles the programming for us.
I am in the same camp of believing this time is truly different. There is still a school of thought that says "we always created more jobs with technology than we destroyed". This is used to make the Luddites look foolish. See there were more jobs created. The problem is things did not end well for the Luddites. They were right, they were put out of jobs.
The pace of things and the power of the technologies we are dealing with is what is massively changing things.
A decade is a long time in the tech world.
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