“Technology is the main culprit here, widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. As Hawking explained, automation has already decimated jobs in manufacturing and is allowing Wall Street to accrue huge rewards that the rest of us underwrite. Over the next few years, technology will take more jobs from humans. Robots will drive the taxis and trucks; drones will deliver our mail and groceries; machines will flip hamburgers and serve meals. And, if Amazon’s new cashierless stores are a success, supermarkets will replace cashiers with sensors. This is not speculation; it is imminent.”

What Stephen Hawking gets right and wrong about ‘the most dangerous time for our planet’
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-stephen-hawking-gets-right-wrong-most-dangerous-time-wadhwa
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