I think the author is optimistic regarding jobs. I think virtually all jobs available on the planet will go away. Machines can’t be as smart as people, but they can be much smarter at one thing. And when all of the “one thing’s” people can do are each handed over to the computer/machine that can do it better, there will be no need for humans to actually HAVE TO do anything. But this sort of world is not compatible with human nature. People will still fight over who has and who doesn’t have.
we are in complete agreement, i think! an FR first
” I think virtually all jobs available on the planet will go away.”
Where ? Majority of traditional jobs (where people actually produce something using their hands) have already gone away. Now majority of employees either sell something or teach other people or help them in any other way. Even those that still work in manufacturing, more often plan the production, estimate trends or control/fix the machines than walk around with hammers in their hands. It’s not a look into the future. It has already largely happened.
Yes the computer tech we have right now will most likely never replace human thought but can be tasked to be better than humans at a chosen group of tasks.
However if quantum computing becomes a working tech (and there are claims of research labs building working quantum computer parts right now) then it is Kate-bar-the-door. Because the limitations our current computers have will be blown away it will be a bigger change than both the Industrial and Digital revolutions combined.
From what I've read one paper claims one fully realized quantum computer will have more computing power than all of the computers created to date. If just a fraction of that claim pans out ten years after that date we will not recognize our world.