> I wonder if we're really that close to the end of jobs, or if we are just suffering from a lack of imagination.
Maybe, but I personally believe that people saying that we don't have to worry about that suffer from the lack of imagination - the very same kind as the one that leads some to say things like "we can't / won't be able to do that". If there's one thing last 100 years of progress have proved, it is that we can do pretty much everything as long as we care about it strongly enough.
Some people warn against believing in power of technology too much; I say people believe in it too little.
Maybe, but I personally believe that people saying that we don't have to worry about that suffer from the lack of imagination - the very same kind as the one that leads some to say things like "we can't / won't be able to do that". If there's one thing last 100 years of progress have proved, it is that we can do pretty much everything as long as we care about it strongly enough.
Some people warn against believing in power of technology too much; I say people believe in it too little.