Look to Your Jobs, the Robots Are Coming

Watch out for the second machine age â?? itâ??s about to eat your job, and your income. Itâ??s also destined to shake systems of government and taxation to their very foundations. I cursed Bob Crow and his little militia of transport workers as I battled my way through Londonâ??s traffic-congested streets yesterday morning. But in less ill-tempered moments, Iâ??ve every sympathy with their predicament. Like the miners in the Eighties, the RMT and its affiliates are engaged in a last-ditch fight for survival. Regrettably for them, it is not a battle they can ever win. If not this time, then the next one or the one after; the inevitability of defeat is set in stone.