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As if newbie lawyers don’t have enough to worry about, what with student loan debt, escalating tuition, and a dearth of jobs, the Pew Research Center has come out with a study that should strike fear into the hearts of newbie lawyers as well as all lawyers, even the dinosaur ones. (Of course, that assumes that lawyers have hearts which, for many members of the public, assumes facts not in evidence.)
What Pew Research shows is that within the next fifty years, two-thirds of Americans believe that much of the work we humans presently do will be done by robots or computers. However, in a delicious piece of irony, few workers (no more than twenty percent) expect that their professions or jobs will be substantially impacted by such technology. More than one third believe that their jobs will be safe in fifty years, and roughly forty percent think that their jobs will probably exist.
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