The Robots Won't Cause Unemployment This Time, Either

'This time'? What's that about?

The 'robots' (AI, web services etc) continue to wallpaper the entire space of intelligence-workers. It's going to steamroller across that space until it encompasses the tasks 'from soup to fish' as they used to say.

Automation (in America) has been going on for 20 years, at an increasing pace the entire time. Never mind employment figures, they're counting cashier-at-McD's the same as professional accountant - 'a job'. Folks have been moving down the economic ladder in freefall for decades.