Another thing I wanted to mention before I finish reading the book you posted. There was a time in this country when a foreign visitor would visit and they could ask someone about law and they thought they were a lawyer. They could ask them about medicine and they would think they were a doctor. Americans used to be well educated, not only by our institutions, but also by self-education.

You are hard pressed to find people that read anymore and our education systems were redesigned to accommodate the industrial revolution. We churned out laborers instead of free thinkers who learned to build a life for themselves. My question is can't we just tune our education system for the age of automation? I can see ephemeralization eventually having it's day, but I don't think we are their yet.

In the mean time I would like to see where a new education system would take us and then address the UBI question. More testing needs to be done in different classes of society to get a better gauge of the real effect it will have.