自动化将以前所未有的速度持续增长。如果回想25年前的“信息革命”，网络发展还处于起步阶段，你会觉得这些专家的想法是多么古怪和不切实际。真正的“信息革命”现在正在进行，机器人将逐步成为这场革命的赢家。
在这样的趋势下，过多的低技能劳动者显得不合时宜。随着自动化进程不断推进，情况会加剧，这些低技能劳动者将被市场淘汰。这时，难免会重现“勒德分子”（Luddite，是指害怕或者厌恶技术的人，尤其排斥威胁到现有工作的新技术）。
更多无人驾驶汽车将出现。但更重要的是货车也将实现无人驾驶。这最终会影响600多万人。不仅是货车司机会受到影响，服务货车司机的人也同样。比如一些美国中西部的小城镇，他们很多居民为货车司机提供餐饮、汽油和住宿等，并赖以为生。无人驾驶货车可能对于这些人来说是一场灾难。因此，经济将发生转变。
甚至由于机器学习崛起，白领的工作也能被自动化取代。请现在重新装备自己的技能！比如学习编码，成为一位技术人员。我们将更多地需要技术人才。但不要选择重复性强或者流程是有明确规定或算法的领域。
越来越多的事情将通过网络进行，网络也会收集数据，我们的生活会在不知不觉中被自动化。有鉴于此，安全和隐私将愈发重要。
2018年的安全问题将更加棘手。计算机安全供应商以FUD（惧、惑、疑，即向客户灌输竞争公司负面信息的行销手法）方式销售产品的做法仍然存在。我们需要改变这一点。FUD会阻碍安全行业发展。
社交媒体要对滥用他们平台的行为负责任。技术提供者不能再声称自己提供的平台只是“工具”而已，不需要担负任何道德伦理责任。随着我们接收到越来越多的信息，越来越了解现代社交媒体宣传，我们将需要对这些平台进行调整。
以上信息都涉及到一个共同之处——软件。自动化必须有软件驱动。从某种意义上，软件正在慢慢一点点地取代人类的一些工作。我们将需要更多人从事软件有关的行业来推进当今社会的进步。我们现在无法定义软件的极限在哪，软件将无处不在。
新思科技软件质量与安全部门是软件安全领域的领导者。面对日新月异的软件市场需求，我们必须将安全和质量内置到所有代码中，确保从源头上防患于未然。
英文原文
Automation will continue at a faster pace than ever before in human history. If you recall talk about the “information revolution” from 25 years ago when the web was in its infancy, you’ll wince at how quaint and wrong the pundits were. The real information revolution is happening now, and the robots are winning. Our politics are now infested with disaffected and displaced low-skill humans who have become obsolete. That situation will get worse as more people are automated right out of the economy. The Luddite backlash is here again!
** CARS will drive themselves. But more importantly, trucks will drive themselves. This will eventually put 6 million more humans out of work (that is, truck drivers) and will have a devastating impact on the small Midwest towns supported only by servicing truckers (food, gas, and lodging). The economy will change.
** Even white collar JOBS will fall to automation (with a heaping side of machine learning). Retool now. Learn to code. Become a technologist. We’ll need more techies than ever. But don’t pick a field where repetition is the main thing or processes are clearly-defined and algorithmic.
Put simply, everything will be on the net, both chattering away about data it is gathering and automating parts of life that we didn’t even know needed to be Automated. Security and privacy will play an important role.
Security is important, but FUD is bad. Lately, there is too much FUD in politics, and much of it happens in the name of security. Computer security still sells with FUD. We need to change that. FUD is corrosive.
Technology providers can no longer pretend that the tools they made are “just tools” without any moral or ethical implications. As we learn more about information warfare, propaganda, and modern social networks, we’ll need to make some adjustments.
Though these themes may seem disparate and disconnected, they all share a common theme---software. Automation by its very definition involves software. In some sense software is eating jobs at an alarming rate, replacing people with bits. Politics involves more software than ever. Even determining what the limits of our software should be turns out to be a thorny issue. We will always need more than the ten million or so people working on software today to help us keep it under control and functioning in our favor as a species. Women have been involved in software since Lady Ada Lovelace dreamed the whole thing up. Software. Software Software.
At Synopsys software integrity group, we are the world leader in making software behave from ideation to deletion. We must build security and quality into all of our code, or suffer the consequences of fate.
