Often disruptive technologies are involved in the perception of creating a huge job loss. Information technology, Innovations, Automation, Artificial Intelligence everything is in the discussion of the concern over future economic dynamics. When we go into the manifestations it is clearly visible to analyse the technological advancements as disruptive for the society's existing economic institutions. However, this is not disruption as such, rather it is reformation and a change to accommodate the growing need, adaptations to the new social order. Manifestations in which we only considered the production side is an acute consideration, think into the latent functionalities. Do you think an organisation can exist without the consumption aspect, without selling their product in the real market?

To imagine the future of work, you have to also imagine how people get to work. If we had believed the prognostications of Elon Musk and others, by 2018 we would be calmly commuting in driverless cars, reading or sleeping in the back seat as robotic chauffeurs smoothly whisked us along highways and city streets. That rapid change did not happen, which is probably a good thing -- for had we experienced that sudden disruption of automation, millions of taxi drivers, delivery drivers, truck drivers, and bus drivers might have been thrown out of work. Nonetheless, visions of a driverless future did spur billions of dollars of investment. The core technologies like AI-enabled navigation, perception, and path-planning are rapidly developing, and increasingly automated of vehicles will certainly be part of our future, emerging in parallel with electrification and digital connectivity.

Journalists have expended a lot of ink covering AI's potential to eliminate jobs. Examples cited include autonomous vehicles, machines that read X-rays and search for new drugs, and algorithm-driven bots that respond to customer service inquiries. Along with a lot of hand-wringing, these advances have spurred increasingly serious discussions about the need to provide a guaranteed minimum income if there are no longer enough jobs to go around. Many headlines suggest that AI and related technologies will lead to a largely jobless future -- as detailed in a recent article on NBC News. And we are already seeing evidence of automation-induced job loss, with more on the way.

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MILES O'BRIEN: We're going to get a better picture tomorrow of how strong job creation is when the monthly employment report comes out. But whatever that snapshot looks like, there are concerns about the rise of robotics and automation, and what that means for the future of the work force. Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, has been exploring that subject. PAUL SOLMAN: In Silicon Valley, author Vivek Wadhwa says he already lives in the future. OK, so, your car can open the garage door and greet you in the driveway?

Last year, the Japanese company SoftBank opened a cell phone store in Tokyo and staffed it entirely with sales associates named Pepper. This wasn't as hard as it sounds, since all the Peppers were robots. Humanoid robots, to be more precise, which SoftBank describes as "kindly, endearing, and surprising." Each Pepper is equipped with three multidirectional wheels, an anticollision system, multiple sensors, a pair of arms, and a chest-mounted tablet that allows customers to enter information. Pepper can "express his own emotions" and use a 3-D camera and two HD cameras "to identify movements and recognize the emotions on the faces of his interlocutors."

We hear again and again that AI and robots are going to take away human jobs. My broken kettle says otherwise. Yesterday, I set my electric kettle down awkwardly on the edge of the sink. It toppled over and smashed. I searched Amazon for a replacement, found several that were highly rated, and within minutes had placed an order.

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It's estimated that between 35 and 50 percent of jobs that exist today are at risk of being lost to automation. Repetitive, blue collar type jobs might be first, but even professionals -- including paralegals, diagnosticians, and customer service representatives -- will be at risk. Manufacturing are the first places we see robots and automation eliminating human jobs, but it's hard to think of an industry that will be left unaffected as robots and AI become more affordable and widespread. Rather than fight this advancement and wring our hands over the robots "stealing" our jobs, maybe it's time to envision a jobless future. Most people are in jobs they don't particularly enjoy, with lots of mundane and repetitive tasks.