Last week Elon Musk made waves with his latest effort to promote automation on our roads and in our homes. Seeing the sleek taxicabs and helpful robots gave hope to some, while instilling fear in others.
The fear is nothing new. In recent years there has been much hand-wringing about the possibility of man’s labor being replaced by Artificial Intelligence and robots, making human beings completely useless in the effort to meet the needs of our fellow man. In fact, this fear has grown so much that the discussion of a Universal Basic Income—which suspiciously sounds like 1980s-era welfare on steroids—has become a favorite topic among Washington, DC’s chattering class.
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