Let's start getting excited about robots taking our jobs

Andrew Heikkila is a tech enthusiast and writer from Boise, Idaho. A recent Pew report found that a majority of Americans believe that most human jobs could be automated by 2065. With tech giants like Google and Chrysler collaborating to produce autonomous passenger vehicles, as well as new tech firms like Otto positioning themselves to revolutionize the commercial transportation industry, many are already discussing how we'll handle history's first slew of "driverless" experiences. It's no wonder, then, that talk about technological unemployment is becoming increasingly popular, with many commercial drivers beginning to question whether or not they'll still have jobs in the coming years. While the concept of a world filled with autonomous workers is relatively new to us, digital disruption obviously isn't, and we've consistently overcome technological unemployment in the past.