If Stalker had time, reading the new book The Rise of The Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment would be on the current reading list.
The idea that artificial intelligence will lead to mass obsolescence of the human workforce is not new.
But with the ever increasing automatization of what were human activities;e.g the robotic picking in horticulture - be it robotic mushroom picking or a new agrobot for scanning strawberry plants and picking the ripest strawberries; or the rise of driverless cars - uber are planning driverless taxis in Arizona very soon; it would seem that the pace of change is quickening.
