How would you feel about the idea of robots with adapting artificial intelligent replacing jobs like McDonalds cashier or ordering guy , or bag boys and other small jobs that pay low income and can be achieve without college education.

Personally had to vote "no this is terrible" - not because I don't find it fascinating, but I do foresee a whole lot more problems with growing population + less jobs.. unless they are created elsewhere (e.g. everyone would have to train as mechanics/programmers to fix the robots!)

As long as we humans can evolve as social beings along with technology, then I do not mind AI's taking over our jobs.

Won't work due to some customers being complete asshats... as anti asshat procedures would eradicate humankind.

I can't wait to get my phone burger phreaking on

They're not jobs I want... They're not jobs I'd do even if I didn't have a better educations.

Hacked for free meals.

The only way it could work is if our society advances to what amounts to a post-scarcity society, where people don't have to work if they don't want to.

Otherwise, it can very easily turn into a dystopian nightmare, where only a handful of people live the easy life while the rest of us live in shantytowns.

Send jobs off to China or have computer do job.. Hmm, I choose computer.. Every century has different kinds of cheap labor. Slavery was first, then it was paying people without equal rights lower pay, now its paying the Chinese to make it for us.. The next in this cycle of cheap labor is Robotics.. Is it really that much different? The thing you should all be fearing is a monopoly or companies just raising their prices for no reason. The quality of living is rising and robotics should be able to make it cheaper for every and all. Technically you could replace every job with a robot but that really isn't practical. Those cute little towns with hand crafted items won't have robots making their stuff in the future either. This really only effects big business which is doing a similar concept whether you like it or not.

I quite like your fourth option. "robots will soon take over the world".. Don't you ever hear anybody say "The Chinese is taking over the world"? Since I have heard it several times..

Cleanse ye souls, humans, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29 will soon be upon us,

I think we're already there. You ever talk to anyone in customer service over the phone? They are like robots they all say the same thing, it doesn't matter who you talk to they have the same dialogue. I call them robots. I hate talking to reps over the phone, I have no patience with them and I literally call them robots.

Yeah it is different, the jobs that the op is suggesting are being taken are retail - not manufacturing or agriculture. This isn't a new-form of the same thing, it's more added to the same thing; more jobs for everyday people lost in-addition to the cheap, overseas, manufacturing.

Unfortunately your attempt to wax philosophical isn't really right.

Unemployment is never a good thing, and I think as time goes on we'll be debating who should be held accountable for it. Industry for using machinery, or the government for letting it all happen?

Talk to John Henry, the auto industry and countless others, machines have been taking jobs since their have been machines.

Ohh didn't realize he meant retail. Well, big business' do similar things still.. Many business' hire illegals and pay them much lower than minimum wage and have them work a unthinkable number of hours. Sad to the illegals losing their jobs, I guess.

Well on one side it would probably be an improvement, but on the other side people would be losing jobs. Indifferent.

I went to Chilis the other day. They're replacing waiters with automated systems. There's a tablet that you order from. Drinks, food, deserts, and then you can pay from it. Pretty cool, but this means fewer jobs.

Science for the inventions of the machinery perhaps?

I sometimes feel it's at teetering point.. technological advances need to slow down.

I remember HG Wells' solution to this. He suggested the people freed up by automation would be able to enrich the culture by dedicating their working lives to artistic expression. It would at least stop the feeling of restlessness and impotency that tends to plague the chronically unemployed. They wouldn't feel like they were taking handouts if they were participating in socially approved cultural activities.

The other option would be a society ruled by the technicians and the capital owners, supporting the unemployed through welfare to provide a market for their own goods whilst outwardly maintaining the appearance of capitalism, but I think this would lead to too much malaise for the individual, and wouldn't make for a very stable society.

The transition to post-scarcity would probably involve a lot of rioting.