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Is it just me or does it feel like this timeframe was too short? Personally, I expect the largest disruptor of jobs to come from autonomous driving, but we're

Is it just me or does it feel like this timeframe was too short? Personally, I expect the largest disruptor of jobs to come from autonomous driving, but we're still 5-10+ years from seeing that hitting the ground. As far as today is concerned, I largely agree. ETFs BOTZ and ROBO have increased, but not in such a way that would suggest huge automation revolution.

mortenjorck 6y ago
The headline (and paper) are titled "No Recent Automation Revolution." We might very well be on the cusp of one, but prediction was not the goal of this paper.
Cthulhu_ 6y ago
In the meantime, the disruptor for driving jobs has been the race to the bottom; services like Uber, Lyft, etc popping up, decimating the taxi industry by having their not-employees compete with each other for work, driving the prices down while they laugh all the way to the bank - they get their cut anyway. While those jobs haven't been automated away as such, they are being priced away.
- bobcostas55 6y ago
  >while they laugh all the way to the bank Uber has been consistently losing money every single year.