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Has Amazon.com figured out how to eliminate cashiers? Are we going to eliminate truck drivers and taxi drivers?

3d printing is eliminating manufacturing jobs. They even used a 3d printer to make a house. Watson can replace so many jobs of those who provide service via the telephone. Can you imagine roombas replacing maids at hotels? Drones replacing UPS and FedEx?

They are filling cars with tiny sensors connected to the internet to tell the dealer when parts are about to wear out and need to be replaced or fixed. Used to be you needed a great mechanic to diagnose the problem, now the car will do that job itself. Other machines, elevators, etc now have sensors just like cars. Used to need a Super to detect a problem, now these machines just send an email to the service center when they need work.

If you can replace tax preparers with a program, surely you can replace 90% of lawyers with computer programs.

Soldiers are being replaced. Pilots replaced by people operating drones, which will soon become autonomous. Self driving vehicles were sponsored by the military. Robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles are all desirable over putting lives at risk.

The internet has been a body slam to the news industry and magazine publishers. Although you still need journalists they have bots and algorithms that can view the entire web to see what stories are out there. This allows stories from around the world to all be shared with each other. As a result there are far fewer journalists jobs based on the US population. We used to think that computers could never replace writers and translators. But they already have replaced a very big chunk of that work. Think about how much the internet has put the mailman out of business. Likewise with the music store, bookstore, even movie theater.

Can you imagine being 20 years old with the changes coming?