Here's a look at Amazon Go, basically retail locations where there are no cashiers and basically no store staff, you just walk in, scan your phone and then take what you want and leave the store. No checkouts, no lines. Amazon is planning on having thousands of these locations. It occurs to me this could also be used for fast food chains and 7-11 convienance stores among many other types of retail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc

Here of course is self driving car, this is driving in real time, there is a driver in driver seat but that's only so the car wouldn't freak out other drivers. The driving itself is done by the computer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG68SKoG7vE

Our kids likely will never learn how to drive a car, just like many millenials of this generation can't drive a manual transmission car. 

While these technology advances are pretty impressive, it also though could gut a lot of jobs. Bye bye taxi drivers too, bye bye driving instructors. Trucking companies are already gearing up for driver-less trucks to be on the road next year. What are your thoughts on this stuff? 

Of course not. We invented automation just for fun. In a few years someone will reveal that it was all a joke and we will go back to the stoneage.

OT I very much welcome this future. As soon as you don't need I driver's license anymore I will get my first car. And as a network admin I'm not worried about my job in the next 40 years.

I like technology, but I don't know why the idea of just picking up something from a store and walking right out ... makes my head spin a little, lol.

Maybe it's because it's absolutely stupid. No one goes to stores anymore. That's what delivery drones are for.

Like salespersons who lost their jobs because of online?

People that worked in videostores?

That's basically how it always works. Already did with the industrial revolution actually. I had my typical german apprenticeship, usually three years, shortended to two and a half years in my case, as a bookseller.

I really liked my job. Wasn't a big thing, wasn't actually that well paid, but i liked it nevertheless. Until when thousands of jobs like this got eaten up by online stores.

Before that in the eighties and nineties there was a market consolidation in most western countries where smaller specialized stores of almost everykind where replaced with big chains, and yes, jobs where actually lost to some amount and, yes, others where replaced with less well paid jobs.

I don't know if the nex generation will have the ability to drive a car by themselves. But i really can't handle a horse carriage. So what?

Question is, what kind of jobs will we see in the future and will we see more or less everybody work? I'd actually say no. There won't be jobs for everybody.

The thing is you can't get into the store without scanning the phone, and once you're in, whatever you pick up and bag is automatically charged, so you can't really shop lift. 

You get charged for whatever you pick up and don't put back onto the shelf. 

Hm, it has it's negatives and it's positives but overall I'm for a more automated future. Amazon Go thing sounds cool.

Yes, we're absolutely headed to an automated future, because it will in many aspects become irresponsible to let us continue doing things, like driving cars, when self driving, networked cars, will be able to keep roads virtually incident free, and eliminate a vast majority of traffic jams.

But it's important that we have economic solutions in place when we get there, because a lot of people will lose their jobs as a result. This is of course just the nature of our race though. We strive constantly to become efficient enough to essentially replace ourselves in all our labor, to make our lives as convenient as possible, but then usually struggle to deal with the ramifications of our newfound comfort. If we ever invent a true super AI (that doesn't decide to do away with us lol), we'll undoubtedly be facing a world in which there is no actual work for us to do, besides that of an artist.

never will happen

its a litigation nightmare.... if people die in an automated car then who do you blame? no company would stay in business for any period of time. Unless you're suggesting automated cars on like a track of some sort

Self Driving Cars is nuts and, again, unless the cars are on tracks there is no way you can program a car to be prepared for all kinds of circumstances, weather, etc.

Won't happen due to lawsuits and just imagine how terrible you'd feel if your family was in an automated car you got and it malfunctioned. Its just silly

Yeah we are I recommend to watch this video if you have any interest on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Also you have incredible people like Andrew Mcafee @amcafee who talk a lot about this subject and if you follow him on twitter/Facebook you get updated to some of the latetst inventions/news stories.