That's not what's happening though. I'm seeing it first hand working in Financial Services. Once the automation is done, the Operations are outsourced overseas.
Even the number of Engineers is being reduced as more and more is being automated. We're at the point where information robots are being used to analyze big data and make investment decisions (the bank I work for is actively working on that) and they're also starting to be used in the legal field to analyze cases, opinions, replacing lawyers and paralegals for example. (Yes, I agree, less lawyers is a GOOD thing.)
My own opinion on this topic is that the technology is getting too far ahead of our own ability to fully consider the implications of what implementing and using it really means.
Will information robots, decision robots, analytical robots and physical robots that do manufacturing and other tasks replace humans? YES.
But what does that mean in terms of other jobs and opportunities that will create, the impacts to daily human life and dare I say the human spirit and Government for example. Will fewer and fewer people be paying higher and higher taxes to support those who are put out of work either temporarily or permanently as this transition to an automated society happens?
The technology is racing ahead of our ability to fully analyze and understand the impacts to us as human beings and God's design for us (which is to WORK.) I think the danger here is crushing the human spirit and all the implications that will have on us as a society and globally.
Just my own .02 worth and I had no idea I'd be so philosophical on my first cup of coffee this morning. Go figure. Try that, robot! :-)
“That’s not what’s happening though.”
It’s happening, at least globally, outsourcing to cheaper countries is another issue...
“Machines will replace human work” has been coming up since centuries -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite But It didn’t happen and it won’t happen. As the old jobs vanish, the new ones appear. Global employment in IT must be tens of millions. Up from nearly zero just several decades ago. What about fitness instructors, wedding planners or... dog groomers ?
Besides, business needs consumers with money to purchase their goods and services, If the pipeline with new “crazy” jobs got dry somehow, they would invent new ones just to keep the whole thing going.