1. Secretary.

Since the advent of personal computers, e-mail and fax machines, more than 45% of a secretary's time is spent filing documents, delivering information, mailing information, mailing letters and copying materials. But more advanced electronic office systems will make it possible for supervisors and managers to turn even scrawled notes into memos that can be distributed at the touch of a command button, and typing secretaries will virtually cease to exist;

By 2000, almost all bank customers will use automatic teller machines, leaving only a few tellers responsible for front-end banking transactions; 3. Telephone operators.

AT&T expects to replace more than half of its long-distance operators with automated voice recognition technology in the next few years. This technology and automated telephone network and voice-information system will cause people to lose some employment opportunities;

4. Receptionist.

Some communications companies in the United States can now provide extremely advanced speech recognition systems that can handle incoming and outgoing calls, and many companies are developing similar systems, which has led to many large companies and government agencies The profession of receptionist can be abolished in the future;

5. Middle-level managers.

In the 1980s alone, U.S. companies eliminated more than 1.5 million middle-level management jobs, including International Business Machines, General Motors, and Chevron;

6 , Public *** librarian.

Computers have replaced card catalogs in libraries, and may soon replace libraries as we know them. At that time, people will forget about traditional libraries and simply notify the library to send books over the Internet. ;

7. Wholesalers.

New information technology allows retailers and manufacturers to conduct business directly, effectively eliminating wholesalers;

8. Specialist doctors.

The current number of specialists to physicians providing initial health care is 2 * 1. But as managed care physicians control patients' visits to specialists, many doctors will give up their specialties. According to experts, the hardest hit are anesthetists, ophthalmologists, plastic surgeons and radiologists in certain specialties; 9. Farmers, farm managers and farm workers. Technological progress has increased farm productivity and reduced labor intensity. Partnership farms continue to increase, and family farms have naturally disappeared;

10. Newspaper carriers.

The development of online daily newspapers shows that the industry is developing in the direction of multimedia.