Whenever someone claims that robots will destroy our jobs, I point them to spreadsheets. How many people in the world were using physical spreadsheets before th

Whenever someone claims that robots will destroy our jobs, I point them to spreadsheets. How many people in the world were using physical spreadsheets before the advent of their software cousins? Ten thousand? How many people use Excel today? Hundreds of millions? Spreadsheet software has increased the number of spreadsheet workers by many orders of magnitude. It's a very extreme example, and not all automation will be the same story, but it's not all doom and gloom