If the response was innovation, as most engineers or product people would focus on, then many of these giants would be in a better place. If you aren't going t

If the response was innovation, as most engineers or product people would focus on, then many of these giants would be in a better place. If you aren't going to disrupt your own model regularly then others will. Good leaders know this and are constantly investing in R&D and innovating to stay ahead. Non-innovation is a stale path that will set the market leader back if they don't recognize it and react. For the workers the only way to minimize the pain is inform them well ahead and cheaper education not just focused fresh out of high school but all working ages to get them into new industries. Robotics will remove many jobs but create lots of work, new work we can't imagine yet, just like computing and the internet did.