> When driving and accounting and phone centers and retail are all automated, will we, yet again, come up with meaningful roles that are accessible to most everyone, but cannot be performed by such technology?
There's at least some evidence for it, I think. The more time people have (because of less work, primarily), the more they need entertainment, it appears, so we're automating away time consuming labor and adding jobs helping the population kill the time that has been freed.
My impression is that we're far away from anything that comes even close to full automation. Of course, from an 18th century standpoint, we're there and then some, but then again, from an 5th century standpoint, we've been there many times over, I suppose.
There's at least some evidence for it, I think. The more time people have (because of less work, primarily), the more they need entertainment, it appears, so we're automating away time consuming labor and adding jobs helping the population kill the time that has been freed.
My impression is that we're far away from anything that comes even close to full automation. Of course, from an 18th century standpoint, we're there and then some, but then again, from an 5th century standpoint, we've been there many times over, I suppose.