The phrase "Yes, the revolution is coming" needs context - the revolution started decades ago. When I was in elementary school, back in the 1980s, we had a home

The phrase "Yes, the revolution is coming" needs context - the revolution started decades ago. When I was in elementary school, back in the 1980s, we had a homework assignment to ask our parents or other adult "will robots take away your job?" My Dad's answer was that he repaired the machines, and there will always need to be people for that job. His answer is almost identical the quote from the article "And now, humans are needed to maintain and repair all those robotic forklifts" from this essay. I find it odd that we have drastically reduced the number of people in entire job categories - typist/stenographers, inter-office mail clerk, telephone exchange operator, automobile plant workers, gas pump attendants, bowling pin setters, elevator operators, etc. - without having huge increases in the number of unemployed people. Then again, I look to the history of my own field of chemical information, where queries that in the 1970s took four people and several hundred dollars to process are now doable for a penny, and wonder where that money went. Macroeconomics is weird.