I should have known that it would be more chatter about machines making people obsolete. It has the potential to be a very vexing problem, actually. That may

I should have known that it would be more chatter about machines making people obsolete. It has the potential to be a very vexing problem, actually. That may condemn literally hundreds of millions of people to poverty, feelings of uselessness (if not outright despair and depression). And very likely be contributing to higher suicide rates, among the newly obsolesced. In that vein, it seems rather callous to describe earnest attempts to get a handle on the problem as "chatter".