Will Hutton, “Driverless Cars, Pilotless Planes … Will There be Jobs Left for a Human Being?,” Guardian, Sunday 19 May 2013.It is strange that there is no mention of the need to maintain aggregate demand, but otherwise the speculations at the end make interesting reading.
I am inclined to think we are only seeing the the small effects of these processes now, and the really huge changes will be more a medium to long term problem, something that will become acute from 2030s or 2040s, though that is just a wild guess.
A final point about energy technology: I suspect many people think of nuclear fusion as the promise that bounced, but recent news about the international nuclear fusion project should give people pause. Unfortunately, at a conservative estimate commercial fusion reactors might not be around until the 2050s.
