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Not this time we dont move people sideways and we do not create more jobs because robots are here to stay and only get better. Look at what Boston Dynamics is able to do right now. A few years down the road and we will have fully automated chains from planting to delivery all done by robots with minimal maintenance from humans.

Self driving cars will be the first indicator if we will move to utopia or dystopia.

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Have you seen what assembly lines looked like in the past? With humans at each station? Now how do they look? While I haven't been alive for hundreds of years, I would imagine that each time a new innovation comes in to play, humanity panics and says this will put everyone out of work, then we find new things to occupy our time and move on to the next outrage.

I dont argue over the point that people will find something to do but our concept of work and income changes with this. A truck/cashier etc. wont be able to take a course and be a nurse next week. UBI is one alley we can take.

We have to accept the fact that we wont have enough jobs for our growing population and part of what i am working on everyday is to do more with less by optimization and we cut into every area with technology from bottom to top. Human employment is expensive.

And never forget Google Minds win in GO was our Manhattan Project.

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