Will smart machines create a world without work?

[Moostache]

3. Who is going to volunteer to ride the first pilotless comercial air flight?

Its coming and probably sooner than anyone wants to admit...

Truckers, Cabbies, Pilots all going the way of the telegraph operator and the newspaper salesmen.
What is sad though is not that these jobs are disappearing, but that the "owners" of the robots will fight tooth and nail to prevent the extra "profits" from ever being taxed to generate a more equitable society. This whole thing ends one way and one way alone - a more egalitarian world. The only question is how many rich people will come along voluntarily and how many will ultimately be purged from humanity for their perpetual denial of the human condition...