I think tat when we focus on the pending robotic era as a threat to jobs, we miss a much more fundamental point: one that we really SHOULD a be focus.

When I was young, we still had at least the image/fantasy, that one could go to college to get a good education, to learn how to think, and THEN could take those skills into the job market.  Today, it seems that so much of college (and our entire educational system) is focused on specific achievements (College as the ultimate vocational school, test results, etc...) Maybe we need to rethink our entire educational process.  

I think most would agree that we're way out of synch these days. But I wonder what we might look like if we really DID teach kids to live in the world of ideas, with a deep respect of the past, a GOOD understanding of history, an appreciation of myth, as well as the latest in science, math, technology, etc? We're so far askew today that most companies don't want to hire out of school: they want OTHERS to train us.