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With the current rate of Technological Development, will server/network admins be a position of the past? - Nathan B The different between Microsoft Server 2000, 2003 and 2008 proves how quickly server administrators will no longer be required to run computer systems. But just look as Cisco's new products, all have GUI interfaces, some not even having the IOS. AI right now is pathetic, but at the current rate of development, in 20 years, I see that all these science fiction movies where the machines kill us seem pretty realistic.

Best Answer: Never. Why you ask? Nothing beats human insight when it comes to troubleshooting a problem you might find with the network -

I'll take the cynical answer. Why? Because I know a lot of recent ex-administrators. Management saw them as too expensive and redundant. Also, of course, a lot of them were Unix Administrators. This is frankly stupid, though. On September 8, 2008, the London FTSE, the only stock exchange in the world which runs on Microsoft Servers, suffered a seven hour outage because it couldn't handle the trading volumes. This was the only exchange in the world which had a problem on a very busy day. Is it all about Microsoft can't write code? I love to make snide remarks about them and sooner or later some people try to top them, but the truth is these are closed-source systems they do not encourage the technicians working on them to understand them. And obviously the new Cisco routers will encourage the same kind of thinking about them. There has been a substantive disinvestment in our educated classes over the past thirty years and I see every indication it will continue. At the same time competent server administrators who understand the guts of the systems they are running will become more essential than ever. There will NEVER be a future where the Machines kill us. It will be more like this allegorical Linux vs. Windows movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_DQjQbtTY - jplatt39

I think server/network admins will still be in need, but the technology is growing so fast with all the virtualization that it will be a must to stay current and consistently learning in order to stay marketable.

I agree with you but I think machines killing us wont happen till quantum computers. - Abdullah C

Computers cant cope with change. For instance if someone unplugs a computer a computer cant plug itself back in. There will always need to be a human input as the end user is always a human. But I think we will rely on technology and then it will fail us and we will be put into a pre historic state and everything will be in chaos as we wont know what to do. Also I think well become physically weaker as computers do more work for us and there will sort of be no need for us as a computer could do it instead. like work machinery etc. Abe. - AbeV123

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