Technological Advancements/Robotic and Automated Jobs and Applications...

[RussMartin]

Robert A. Heinlein pointed out, long ago, that anything conceived or built by a human mind still has built into it the limitations of the human mind.

My paternal grandfather gave up a peripatetic existence (Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, then Oklahoma) of rural subsistence farming about 90 years ago and started fixing dilapidated automobiles to re-sell, sometimes taking as trade-ins horse-drawn wagons and buggies . . .

[Bronurstomp]

Technical advancements will have their benefits and drawbacks for people. The question is: What are the trade-offs? I think for the next generation or two, the benefits will out weigh the drawbacks. Autonomous cars and aircraft have my vote for replacing human pilots. Replacing a human operator/pilot that has multi - millisecond reflexes with a microcontroller that has potentially sub- microsecond reflexes makes for safer travel for everyone IMHO. At least initially I envision transport to go autonomous, then mass transit, then the general public. I could build my own given an unlimited budget
I'm hoping that as technology advances, our leisure time will continue to grow until we reach a point where we no longer have to even consider where our meals will come from, or even what we have for an income. The key, I think, will be the discovery of some type of clean renewable compact energy source that no one can monopolize. Maybe that blue stuff on Mercury?
For some interesting forward looking material, read "The Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition". I forget the authors, but very interesting thought provoking reading on this subject.
If I were one of those people 'back in the day' of mundane rote repetitive manual labor in an assembly line, I would not have survived long. I'm also not physically suited to digging a ditch with a pick and shovel, but I can easily learn how to operate a bucket loader.