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.







