Have you ever been inside of a factory? Nearly everything there is mechanized and the few things that aren't are left to humans for the simple reason that the workers still have some say in how businesses are run and they don't want to have their jobs done away with.
In this same train of thought, combines on farms and other pieces of farm machinery have enabled the workforce that was on farms to decrease from about 80% of people in the 1800's to well under 1% now. Most of this reduction was accomplished via industrialization. Increased crop yields via fertilizers and pesticides help too, but machines are the larger portion.
Cars are another example. In the next few decades I would expect (unless there is public outcry) more and more countries and states to pass laws concerning self-driving cars (I know California has already done so). This would take out another group of jobs (taxi/bus drivers), freeing people up for other tasks. This process will likely be quite long and quite expensive though, so there's not much to worry about if you do work in these fields now.
Do you think that robots will be replacing people one day?
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Have you ever been inside of a factory? Nearly everything there is mechanized and the few things that aren't are left to humans for the simple reason that the workers still have some say in how businesses are run and they don't want to have their jobs done away with.
In this same train of thought, combines on farms and other pieces of farm machinery have enabled the workforce that was on farms to decrease from about 80% of people in the 1800's to well under 1% now. Most of this reduction was accomplished via industrialization. Increased crop yields via fertilizers and pesticides help too, but machines are the larger portion.
Cars are another example. In the next few decades I would expect (unless there is public outcry) more and more countries and states to pass laws concerning self-driving cars (I know California has already done so). This would take out another group of jobs (taxi/bus drivers), freeing people up for other tasks. This process will likely be quite long and quite expensive though, so there's not much to worry about if you do work in these fields now.
So yeah, this is already happening.