Wonkblog on the Washington Post covers the future with robots from the distinctly human perspective:
According to a widely-cited study by economist Carl Benedikt Frey and engineer Michael Osborne, 47 percent of jobs in the United States are at high risk of disappearance due to improving technology. …
Techno-optimist Kevin Kelly of Wired [former editor of Whole Earth Review] celebrates the coming of our robot overlords, arguing that they will free us to do more fulfilling and higher-value jobs in the future. …
Larry Mishel at the Economic Policy Institute finds that the skill-based technological change explanation for wage stagnation and high unemployment doesn’t track with trends like the declining wage premium for college, and so can’t be a driving force behind income inequality. …
In a Pew survey of 1,896 technology experts, about half believed that technology would destroy more jobs than it creates, creating mass unemployment, and half disagreed.
Not exactly definitive.
