Further on the theme explored in my column this week on restaurant robots, Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence writes:
the impact of robotics (another technology with digital foundations), is not confined to production. Though self-driving cars and drones are the most attention-getting examples, the impact on logistics is no less transformative. Computers and robotic cranes that schedule and move containers around and load ships now control the Port of Singapore, one of the most efficient in the world.
It's not only McDonald's order-takers and cashiers that may have their jobs replaced by computers, in other words: taxi-drivers and longshoremen may be next.