[Morendil]

"Though it promises robot carers for an ageing population, it also forecasts huge numbers of jobs being wiped out: up to 35% of all workers in the UK and 47% of those in the US"

...not only are those forecasts not from the cited source (they're from an Oxford study), they're also not credible:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/+LaurentBossavit/posts/is8vMdyXb...

[wstrange]

I think the time-frames of when this will happen are debatable, but not the general arc of events.

Machines and AI continue to get incrementally better. There is no reason to think that this incremental progress will magically stop at some threshold which leaves a large swath of employment for humans to perform.