Google Scientist Takes On "Robogeddon" - Lawrence J. McQuillan

The future of work has always been a hotly debated subject. The heat has been turned up recently with advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). One view, expressed by Stowe Boyd, lead researcher at GigaOM Research, is that robots will yield a net reduction in jobs for humans, "The central question of 2025 will be: What are people for in a world that does not need their labor, and where only a minority are needed to guide the'bot-based economy?" This view believes that there will be less demand for human labor in the future, resulting in a net reduction in human jobs over time. An alternative view, however, is that technology is not destiny, and that throughout history, technology has been a job creator overall, not a job destroyer.