&gt; <i>In fact this push for increased human skills seems like it will only widen the gap between the uber skilled and the 99%.</i><p>What happens is that pressure is simply increasing all the time, and people are on a bell curve w.r.t. how well they can keep up. We are effectively grabbing that bell curve and pulling its ends much further apart.<p>We need a solution, otherwise things are going to get very, very ugly.