Since our system is capitalistic, this technology will surely mean the end of a lot of jobs. And more pressure for the people that do have jobs. The same way robots replaced people in manufacturing.
-rxantos
I don't suppose you use a vacuum cleaner or a dishwasher or laundry machines or a computer or electricity or the internet or an automobile or anything digital? Think of all the maids and servants and personal assistants and messengers and publishers and covered wagon makers and ox/horse breeders and quill pen makers and etc. that have been put out of a job because of your thoughtless technological uses! How dare you use technology to your advantage?
Then remember that these same advances have helped us all reduce some of the menial physical labor (even if some people were getting paid to do that labor) and freed us to pursue other interests, some of which interests might even bring more money than what was "lost" to the machines.
My point, though probably not well made, is that there is a fairly well balanced cycle of old jobs lost (becoming obsolete) and new jobs invented as technology improves.
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