[Steely Tom]

In the not-too-distant future, robots are going to be doing most physical work. Commercial interests that use robots will pay a tax on each robot, and that money will be used to pay the people who aren't working, after the politicians take a nice big chunk off the top (like 80% or so).

A tiny number of very skillful people will do most of the brain-work, and use the internet to publish their work. Here the word "publish" includes the concept of "manufacturing," through 3-D printing technology and other things that will be derived from it.

The concept of a job as a necessity will slowly die out. Vast amounts of human misery will result; the disappearance of survival jobs will give rise to new types of jobs, and new types of problems.

The need to judge and gauge the character of strangers will become even more important, while at the same time becoming harder to accomplish.

The medical profession will undergo the same transformation that the profession of machinist has undergone, only much faster.

All these trends are already underway; you can see it happening, if you pay attention.

[Nowhere Man]

I think in a jobless society, there will be a push for a guaranteed living wage. This will happen out of political as well as true necessity because nature abhores a vacuum. There is already talk of this in Switzerland. The bad side is that the saying, “idle hands are the Devil’s Workshop” so there will be more opportunity for troublemaking.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Rather a dark view. But who will design build and maintain the machines?
Human beings are not obsolete nor will they be. We are adaptable inventive and flexible. It will be the drones the layabouts who will not thrive. The future belongs to the ants not the grasshoppers

[Lazamataz]

In the not-too-distant future, robots are going to be doing most physical work. Commercial interests that use robots will pay a tax on each robot, and that money will be used to pay the people who aren't working, after the politicians take a nice big chunk off the top (like 80% or so). A tiny number of very skillful people will do most of the brain-work, and use the internet to publish their work....

Yeah, and the computer was going to reduce the use of paper to nearly nil.

OOPS....

[tbw2]

People won’t permit automation if it means they starve. Nor will they permit power for automation while others freeze.

And there are many jobs robots won’t be doing.
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment