I'd like to revisit this topic and read up on it. I am 58 and it's been talked about at various volume levels over my lifetime. Recently, I've seen some videos showing German car manufacturing and it was flabbergasting how much was done by robots. But that automation has taken decades and has spawned new industries by itself (someone has to design, build, and program the robots). In my field of Software development: so much has changed and SO much is the same. Since I know software it has been attempted to totally commoditize it. Very, very little of that has been achieved. If people would know how much handcrafting still goes into software development (for instance for medical instrumentation), they would be surprised. There are industries that could use RPA and AI to produce products, but they chose not to because it is so easy to roam the world for cheap labor as a company. The invention of the shipping-container (vastly underestimated) has made it trivial to transport goods around.
AI has advanced, but not as much as people think. A lot of its felt influence comes less from AI but from the raw computing and power and data storage that is available now. Look at how Facebook or Google power their computer farms: [google.com]
The changes have been often more in the area of 'scaling' than actual algorithms.
I really wonder how many changes in this domain will come and actually affect me....

It's coming. We will demand it with one hand and complain about it with the other. Best we adjust. At no time have Luddites won the battle.

People become more and more dissociated from the machines and how they function, while also becoming more dependent.

However, I'm not too concerned as long as people are willing to #LearnToCode

One word... SKYNET

I'm kinda serious here