The Seven Steps Toward Making Humans Obsolete

Kevin Kelly is a true believer in technology, not in a fanboy sense but in his unwavering confidence that huge technical leaps will change the fabric of civilization so that the unthinkable, or at least the unthought of, will become commonplace. To him these leaps are…inevitable. His treatment of the steps by which robots will take our jobs is instructive of his approach. Skeptics, citing the fact that robots currently can't move around the room with the dexterity of a four-year-old, say that worries about full robot replacement are nerd pipe dreams. Fear-mongers say that massive unemployment will be the result of businesses tossing workers in the street after work is fully automated.