I think, just like always on HN, that people who write these kind of posts and respond to them (agreeing) are not often in contact with 'the common man'. Like the Turing test 'news'; a lot of of people I know would be mistaken for a computer and if I would make a computer which acts exactly like they do, people here would call it a failure and not intelligent. I am convinced the singularity will come and we are all replaceable in the end, however I think before this there will come a (possibly long) time when machines will replace 80%(+) of the working population. There will be no jobs to replace those jobs as the humans doing them simply cannot do things which are vastly different. In the past, for instance with horse carriage to cars, you could see that operation of a car is related to that of a carriage. There is no such move to be made with people who put glue on four corners of the iPhone glass plate (in exactly the same place every time or get fired) and who are replaced by a more accurate and faster robots. Moves like this can be made with general practitioners (most local MDs are already replaced by machines; the only thing they do is search for your issues and prescribe what comes out or refer you to someone who might know) or the run of the mill lawyer or accountant who, in essence, bring nothing to the table already but the fact they have a piece of paper. A lot of people here can do a better job than these (especially MDs and accountants) with Google and their common sense and education. (Edit: I mean by this; these jobs need to be and will be disrupted but only the law/system is preventing that at the moment. There was talk of Watson somewhere with one nurse replacing (many) GPs at a time, but I bet that didn't happen yet because GPs like the status quo.)

I'm not bleak about the future as I do also think we'll need (and force) a more EU distribution of the wealth in the end, but there will be a quite hard period when that's not in place and 1 billion Chinese are out of a job...