Hi Opher! Yes, that's what I see too. I believe it will do to programmers and various IT workers what the word processor and legal databases did to legal secretaries and paralegals, two jobs that paid very well in the 1980s. The top programmers will make more and there will be less personal assistants.

Also, as you point out, eventually companies will work hard to keep their work products out of these databases. You'll have to pay real money for access.

What do you think their effect will be on financial services? Part of me thinks little, part, a lot.