This isn't all that different from the transition from a manufacturing economy to an information economy that's been going on for a long time. It hurt the econo

This isn't all that different from the transition from a manufacturing economy to an information economy that's been going on for a long time. It hurt the economy a hell of a lot worse to lose middle class manufacturing job than it's going to hurt losing lowest-common-denominator fast food jobs, which are the jobs at the most risk. The more a job requires actual judgement, the less at risk it is. And indeed, I expect there will be plenty of supervision and maintenance jobs in the workplaces that transition to automation -- people will be much better at exception handling than machine systems for the foreseeable future.