1. Conditions in France that led to the French Revolution;

2. Conditions in Russia that led to the Russian Revolution.

Now combine the effects of this fourth industrial revolution with the increasingly disruptive effects of climate change.

All bets are now off.

WWI and WWII. I believe the coming revolution will be by far the bloodiest in history.

AIs are going to eliminate a lot of technical positions that people are not prepared to lose. We're already seeing engineering jobs get eliminated by SW tools that write and test code. I work in avionics, we've got a tool suite that eliminated a million hours of engineering time for testing the health management system of an airliner. We have 1 super smart systems engineer managing the inputs for the tool which wrote 450,000 test cases and their test procedures which we'll be able to load into a simulation to test.

Learn to code... well, it helps, but you better know how the systems that you are coding for work.

Warehouse jobs are currently being automated at an amazing rate. Driving jobs are going to be automated fully within 25 years. Those are the obvious ones. But what about Accountants? What if there's a single AI that your company can subscribe to that will turn your accounting department from 25 people to 2? That's right around the corner. AIs are going to change the way we think about automation. Higher skilled jobs will be able to be automated.

Far too many still aren't getting it.

or PBS/NPR I haven't seen much in broadcast news. They're mild and never tackle the mass job loss.

Print news is different and you have to look in the business and science sections for decent reports.

WHAT GOVERNMENTS ARE WORKING ON MASSIVE DISRUPTION IN THE HUMAN LABOR FORCE?

HOW ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO ADAPT TO THIS & CLIMATE CHANGE???

The justification is noble, the tractors would make safe, nutrient-dense food less expensive for consumers. By using the tractors to prepare fields, plant a variety of crops and weed to control weeds, a farming operation eliminates tens of thousands of people labor hours and produce a higher quality product. Farm technicians can monitor the tractors at several farms from one air conditioned control room, leaving only to verify that the tractors are performing a task right. A large farm can go from 9 or 10 permanent employees and more than a hundred seasonal employees to maybe 5 or 6 permanent employees.

While there is some benefit to where we are headed, unless governments step in to insure equity, the eventual outcome is likely to be devastating.

This industrial revolution is unlike any other in history. In previous industrial revolutions machines did eliminate jobs, but expanded demand by making products that were out of financial reach for some available, thereby greatly expanding employment in several associated industries and at all pay points.

The current revolution almost completely replaces people and more importantly DOES NOT expand net employment. When 12 jobs are compressed into 3 higher paying jobs, that leaves 9 people with a serious problem. In addition, modern machines are so complex and costly that only a few can afford them and that few uses those machines to wipe out competitors, causing job loss. Lastly, our tax structure has been rigged to the point that people that can afford new machines and take in almost all of the money can refuse to share with the rest of society by using tax avoidance schemes that are now legal. But history has shown over and over again how the situation of inequity gets resolved, the poor just won't starve to death, they revolt against those that they see as their oppressors, causing broad waves of violence and death that can last for decades.

comfortably and not destroy their own habitat and most of the living wonders of Planet Earth.

The population is going to drop is a fact. There is at least an opportunity to influence when and how and where population and impact of human activity can be managed in the population decline.