Yes and no, Caleb McCary. Perhaps I’m an idealist but I do believe that if we are creating tools that augment our abilities as humans then we are very much inventing new jobs for ourselves while changing the nature of other jobs. I’m thinking about AR technologies that allow factory workers to use augmented glasses to see step by step instructions to trouble shoot on the factory floor or to even flip to a page in the machine’s manual to solve the problem with the machine. Technology will certainly shift our economy, automation is already changing the nature of many careers. But it can be used as a tool to supplement and improve our ability to work more successfully using the many attributes that make us uniquely human.

This piece was JUST published regarding AR and how it truly will “augment” our human abilities to be more successful in the future: https://blog.thomasnet.com/augmented-reality-manufacturing