I studied and work in a traditional, old-fashioned area of engineering (civil, structural design focus instead of construction management).

I feel very similar. This is just a re-skin of the old Chiefs and Indians problem, I've accepted that our role is to stay in our fields and be the best Indians we can, the world is changing, leaders are taking things places, but someone still needs to build the data-centers. We are missing out, but in the greener grass on the other side of the fence kind of way, simple envy.

I like the plan to apply the advances in other fields to our own, but don't get distracted by the Big Shiny Solutions that gets all the talk. I've undertaken very basic programming to automate the repetitive parts of my work flow. With my understanding of construction management (babysitting contractors) I'd be focusing on the Sequences to keep the percent time spent rational as high as possible, and focusing on human interaction