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These days it is common for some seekers of truth to try and pierce the veil of reality and seek the deeper truths behind it. Truth seeking has many roads. Post-snap truth seeking will pick up an additional twist: Some veil piercers will be seeking real world reality itself, not some beyond-reality. They will be working with cybers to learn analytics and hard sciences and the way the real world operates so they can change the world, the real world, in meaningful ways.
Here are some of the occupations of Veil Piercers.
Cybers will directly control production, but these are the people who advise them. Financiers of today control the flow of resources between investors and projects that can be invested in and that aspect of their job will flow through to post-snap. They will advise the cybers on how to allocate those resources that are visible to humans. (most of post-snap productivity will be invisible because of complexity)
Business people will marshall a mix of human and cyber resources to take on projects which cybers can't figure out easily. They will be concerned with designing breakthrough products that can be the templates for subsequent knockoff cyber activity. Think of Apple's role after Job's return in the 2000's.
One of the unknowns of post-snap is how intellectual property (IP) will be handled. This is a place where cyber lying is likely to be common. I envision that in the post-snap world some people can enjoy IP trolling, but what they find won't match reality very closely. The trolling will be yet another way humans can pseudo-game the system and gain lots of personal satisfaction from doing so.
More and more humans will supply the 1% of invention -- the cybers will handle the perspiration part. But... for humans to supply that one percent they will have to be thoroughly grounded in the harsh realities they are exploring. This will be a difficult challenge. They will have to learn how to perspire even if they don't do much of it day-to-day. An example of what they will have to know comes to mind: In 2011 there was a science news flurry when it was reported that neutrinos from LHC were getting to a detector in Italy at faster than light speeds. This was news for weeks until it was finally determined that a faulty optical cable was screwing up the timing measurements between LHC and Italy. Discovering that flaw took perspiration.
Out-in-the-field farmers are likely to maintain a large human presence because outdoors is so varied and unpredictable. "Factory farming" -- things going on indoors, including things such as growing bacterial mats -- will be more cyber dominated because it will be more controlled.
Humans will continue their love of customized foods so specialty food production is a manufacturing area that will likely sustain a large human component. It will be backed up with a lot of cyber infrastructure, but the legendary element in food production is strong, so human presence will remain large, and these people will be dealing with harsh realities.
Ironincally, farmers and farm living may remain a prime source for practical people who then learn many other veil-piercing endeavors.
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