Montrovant
Fuzzy bears!
I'm pretty sure McCain won't be around to see the kind of mass replacement of jobs that you're talking about.....hell, I have my doubts that I will be, either, and I could easily live another 40-50 years.
I understand your skepticism, but progress on Strong AI and autonomous robots are very far long in development.
Sabina, A Robot Domestic Learns When You Show Her
Robots being developed that have a 'brain' and can learn new things like a human child
Certainly interesting, but I don't think that indicates we're close to seeing robots doing most human jobs. For example, look at the ASIMO from the video. That was a 25 year project by Honda, and the robot was first created in 2000. We're nearly 4 decades from when that project was started, and robots aren't wandering around the average suburbanite's home yet.
Automation will continue to increase, I just think that while we often hope for lightning fast changes, it tends to be an incremental process.