Hey @scalextrix thanks for reading and your measured response. So good to get a couple of good comments as lately some comment's have been...Shall we say, intelligence-challenged? :)

All good points, for sure. Robots, probably aren't that creative...Until Cyberdyne creates Skynet, or some such self-aware artificial intelligence. Then, we're screwed. Just ask Sarah and John Connor. Oh, that's just a movie...But, is it? :)

Seriously though, it's not just robots I refer to in my post. It's the thousands of daily jobs that machines can do in place of a human.

I was advised by a teller at the ANZ bank that instead of depositing a couple of thousand dollars over the counter and into my bank account I could do it at the ATM. Outside, with my back to the public? Hmm. He took me outside to show me how simple it was. 20 minutes later my money was deposited...Into the wrong account! Sure, it was my own account, but not the right one. No worries, he reckons...We can swap it, also at the ATM. So he showed me how to do that. The entire episode took about 25 minutes.

When he was done I said to him, "how do you feel demonstrating to customers how to do things for themselves and so pushing yourself closer to redundancy." He didn't really have an answer.

All of my local supermarkets have self-serve lines (which I refuse to use), as does my local hardware store Bunnings. I still have a human make my lunch at this point but as soon as they can create a machine to mess up my lunch order it'll take over I'm sure.

You're right though, humans are more creative and we'll probably all have loads of time on our hands to get creative when the machines take over and we have no jobs.

It'll be funny to see a room full of robots being bored by a robot delivering a powerpoint presentation!

I worked for 14 years at an Auto Plant. GM-Holden. I started in 1989 making 480 cars a day over two shifts with 5,500 operators. I ended in 2001 making 520 cars a day over two shifts with 4,500 operators. It's closing down this year. Forever. Only 1,300 people work there now. Robots you see.

Anyway, we'll enjoy our redundancy won't we? I'm looking forward to be redundant in many areas too...The grocery shopping, house-cleaning, job, car washing...As long as they don't make a robot that replaces me on the couch watching Netflix! :)