Just bought it for $ 27 with the code 1042886 . <| sep |> For instance , vehicles previously replaced horses and folks skilled with them . Those horse handlers either learned to drive a vehicle , found another job with different skills , or blamed others . More recently , a lot of travel agents became unemployed due to the internet . The difference between now , and the time of the wagon drivers , is this time we ' re the horses in the equation . Previous examples of automation have only really amplified muscle power . One man might be able to do the work of five with the machines , but you still needed a human brain in the system to make it work . We ' re now outsourcing brain power to computers . As this accelerates , and this new technological revolution takes hold , those jobs lost won ' t be coming back in new forms . We ' re a long way away from cutting people completely out of the system , but we ' re much closer to cutting them out of every rote busywork type job there is . The only jobs that are really safe in the coming decades are those that require creativity , significant abstract thinking , and or improvised problem solving . There aren ' t nearly enough of those to go around for the whole working population .