I agree with his heading the future looks pretty dire for the low skilled, but he then descends into hyperbole. As hessenwolf says, there are plenty of non-tech

I agree with his heading the future looks pretty dire for the low skilled, but he then descends into hyperbole. As hessenwolf says, there are plenty of non-technical skills that are very much in demand. Those without such skills have always been at the bottom of the pile, but he's right in that things are going to get very much worse for them. If all you have to offer the world is your manual labour, you are not going to have a fun time of the next few decades. However, his hope that the tide of human suffering rises high enough for the murmurs of discontent from the slave castes turn to cries of revolution is mistaken. Every revolution in history has been made by the educated - sometimes in the name of the proletariat, but never actually by them. The uneducated just get Bread and Circuses, and if the modern world knows how to make anything, it's Bread and Circuses.