Charles Simon, BSEE, MSCs, is the founder and CEO of Future AI: Technologies that Think. If you've recently eaten at a fast-food restaurant, driven on a toll road or checked out groceries at the supermarket, you may have noticed one thing they all have in common: Many people who used to help you have been replaced by machines. Most people regard this as simply the price of progress. As new technology is introduced, it displaces an older technology, along with the jobs it created. What is often overlooked is that the new technology, whatever it happens to be, typically brings with it new jobs for those with the smarts and the skills to take advantage of the new opportunities at hand.