All this ties in very well with the left's agenda -- a "living wage" regardless of whether you work (and millions won't be able to work), reducing the "surplus" population, and networking literally everything together to better facilitate the monitoring of "dissent."
A am afraid that computer driven machines will become so intelligent that they will take jobs away from humans in a big way. Many of those jobs will be manufacturing jobs. What automation can do now is quite spectacular. Wait until artificial intelligence makes its impact. Artificial intelligence will detect when a malfunction occurs and determine the necessary fix. Artificial intelligence will do things we cannot imagine and will do them faster than what humans can do. What jobs will be available for humans will be quite demanding. If you are a human, you will be required to do a job task better than a machine to make it worth the company’s money. Such jobs will be quite demanding and, as I have seen, will be rendered obsolete with the latest technology. Humans will compete with machines and some day, all manufacturing will be done only with machines. I am not sure if humans will even repair the machines that malfunction.