We will invent new industries like when people thought the early Industrial Revolution would put most people out of work too.
“We will invent new industries like when people thought the early Industrial Revolution would put most people out of work too.”
So true. I remember the lament about about “Casey the Steel Driving Man” who built the railroads, being replaced by a steam engine.
Those typing pools - big rooms filled with row upon row of ladies typing letters from handwritten pages - are long gone. So are so many of the farm jobs, which employed the majority of the population in 1900 (now about 3%).
30 years ago, nobody dreamed of becoming a web designer, or anything else on the Internet. In thirty years from now, if we still have security and freedom, we will be able to do so much more than ever before.
A major expected effect of robots making and moving most everything for us, should also be a huge reduction in the cost of living.
The world went through a great deal of strife as we transitioned through the Industrial Revolution.
When robots are doing most of the "work", we will need a LOT fewer people. It's not a stretch to think there will be social upheaval.
Of course, with crashing birth rates, people are already fixing this in most developed nations. So, maybe the problem is taking care of itself.
The industrial revolution DID put most people out of jobs - and the first generation of people were badly hit as they didn’t and couldn’t (in most cases) handle this change.