Tech wave

The wave of technology is upon us. Google Translator Toolkit will have tremendous negative effect in the profession, the human being a mere checker of the machine output. On the interpretation front, I just read a promotional article about the use of a remote HD simultaneous system during some conference at Hosei University. This does not reduce the role of the interpreter to a mere checker though. To a large extent, in the case of translation at least, in non-critical situations, approximate rendering will suffice. Or said differently, the tolerance to approximate translation will grow as a pandemic. The professional amateur will dominate. Everything else that require precision will be niched out. That's probably where satisfaction in personal professional development may be for a while.