What professions or careers have virtually disappeared due to disruptive technologies or innovation?

Stock brokers not so much; they are just on the "threatened list" along with journalists, investment advisors, sales men in retail stores, postal workers, and small retail business owners. But add: Wheelwrights Blacksmiths Brakemen and train conductors Coal miners Farmers Movie extras I included some of the above to serve as a reminder that technological change has caused loss of jobs since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It is not a new phenomena.

Hello,Good Question and I will say that every good thing have some bad impacts too, and that fits to technology and occupations too. I have found a good list which will prove it. here is the link of 10 http://thebesttop10lists.com/knowledge/general/10-dying-or-obsolete-jobs-due-to-technologyIt is pretty informative and that's the reason it compelled me to share it with others. No, wonders, if technology has made life easier but it also killed some old dying jobs and made them obsolete. this list answers all jobs that are disappeared due to disruptive technologies or innovation?we have already seen that, so technology seems to be putting an end to the jobs of the good old days. But what it's also doing is providing newer, more effective ones, all whilst keeping up with the times with the sole purpose of making life easier for us. Technology, for the boon that you are, we're going to see past the bane. Now it's time to prepare for the future, don't let behind.

Lots and lots of lawyers. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Going, going: travel agents, telephone switchboard operators, secretaries, typesetters, paper boys, public school art, music and gym teachers, newspaper reporters  ...

Much discussion could (should) come of this thread I located at http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472261a.html The technology fueling online education may indeed fuel a transformation in academia - not necessarily a bad thing, either. Higher education in the United States has long been the envy of the world, but that is changing. The technologies that have transformed financial markets and the publishing, news and entertainment industries are now disrupting the education system. In the coming years, growing global competition for the multibillion-dollar education market will increase the pressure on US universities, just when public and private funding is decreasing. Although significant change is necessary at every level of higher education, it must start at the top, with total reform of PhD programmes in almost every field. The future of our children, our country and, indeed, the world depends on how well we meet this challenge.

Postal workers are being phased out as email lessens the need for paper mail. Retail sales positions have diminished as have travel agents.

Buggy whip manufacturers Gas station attendants High level HR recruiters in a company Purchase order accountants Meter readers Milk men Independent car mechanics

Bible copying monks were displaced by the printing press Electronics repairpeople Stenographers Mattress makers Automobile line workers Printers and copy shop clerks Mail carriers Insurance agents

In the newspaper industry, darkroom technicians flourished until the last 15 years or so when digital imaging gradually killed off film processing. And as someone who grew up in an auto industry family, I can tell you that many jobs have disappeared there. An uncle of mine used to stamp out fenders at a Fisher Body plant. I'm sure a robot does that work now.