Are We Prepared for Automation?

We are barreling toward a future of automation. A great proportion of the six million US manufacturing jobs that have disappeared over the last few decades were lost as a direct result of automation's slow absorption of physical labor and factory work. Now the pace is quickening and thanks to developments in artificial intelligence, automation's reach is expanding, too. According to Elon Musk, self-driving cars will displace 15% of the world's workforce. Musk warns that driverless cars are closer than they might appear.