&gt; <i>What&#x27;s the plan for replacing work after this new era arrives?</i><p>Who cares?  Anybody sees a problem with automating away so many jobs that unemployment rises to 50% and beyond?  Unemployment is <i>not</i> a problem.  It&#x27;s how we deal with it that is.  You just can&#x27;t expect everyone to work when machines do all the work.<p>So… how about we all work <i>less</i>? What about a 4 days work-week, or even 3?  How about automating so much work that voluntary community service becomes enough?<p>We need to think about it soon, because the current model is not pretty: just let the jobless starve, and lock them up (or out) when they start to demand jobs or (gasp!) money.  And if things get ugly, send the army bots.  &quot;Shoot on sight&quot; is pretty easy to automate, if you don&#x27;t care to discriminate.<p>&gt; <i>hey didn&#x27;t popularize the notion that 1% of the population would own all the robots.</i><p>The heart of the problem, really.  To this, I see only one solution: abolishing lucrative property, communist scare crow be dammed.