We've spoken of this from time-to-time in Chat and I never leave feeling very reassured for my children's children.
Remember the milkman? The corner newspaper paperboy? The assembly line workers at Detroit automotive plants? How about the shrinking postal service and empty ghost plants that were once steel mills? Then there are travel agents and printing press operators; both almost eliminated at this juncture.
As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world, with one sole purpose: do whatever humans can do, but better. According to some, the displacement of labour by machines and computer intelligence will increase dramatically over the next few decades. Such changes will be so drastic and quick that the market will not be able to abide in creating new opportunities for workers who have lost their jobs, making unemployment not just part of a cycle, but structural in nature and chronically irreversible. I
