With the industrial revolution, jobs started to be replaced by machines at an unprecedented scale. This led to many protests and fears that people would be without jobs, but in fact it led to increased productivity and a raise of living standards at a pace never seen before.
Now again in the time of automatic factories and industrial robots, machines are taking over low skilled labour jobs, and again this rises fears. In the video below, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic is giving us his view on what will happen.