RISE OF THE MACHINES: Professionals and Managers: You’re Next. Automation may replace skilled workers sooner than you expect. “Here’s the dirty little secret about automation: it’s easier to build a robot to replace a junior attorney than to replace a journeyman electrician.”

Prediction: With members of the professional classes at risk, automation will suddenly become much more problematic. You know, kind of like how gerrymandering went from “amusing political shenanigans” to “threat to the Republic” when it stopped helping Democrats and started helping Republicans instead.