Welcome to our Thanksgiving rerun episode as we take a little time off for the holiday.

Of course, as many of us are taking time off from work to be with friends and family,

I thought it would be a good opportunity to be reminded that these privileged days of taking time off from work may be numbered

as we're all standing in the destructive path of automation and artificial intelligence that may turn all of our days into days off soon.

I now enjoy this episode on the Future of Work originally released at the very beginning of 2018.

Welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left podcast with Cups Today from Ideas from the CBC, The David Pakman Show, The Tom Hartman Program, Freakonomics Radio, and at The Ezra Client Show.

The period where approaching is being compared to the first industrial revolution in terms of its disruptive ability,

do you think that's an affair just picked up?

Sure, that's maybe even in some cases more so.

The first industrial revolution was about steam power and it was about machines that essentially displaced muscles.

That took over a manual labor.

Now we're having what you might call a cognitive computing revolution where machines are taking on brain power.

They're taking on that cognitive capability.

You can ask the question, well, we've had these revolutions in the past, why does everyone still have a job? Why don't we have unemployment already?

The reason is that people have this unique skill to think, to solve problems, and to learn.

That's what's allowed people to stay ahead of that march of technology.

You can compare it to horses, for example.

horses have got displaced.

Horses have lost their economic role in the economy.

The reason is horses could not adapt in the way that people do.

Now technology is finally beginning to move into that frontier as well.

You've now got these thinking learning computers that are going to begin to compete with people in that primary capability that so far has allowed us to stay ahead of all this.

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