Will robots take the jobs of human workers? Disruptive technologies that may bring about jobless growth and enduring mass unemployment

This article reviews and advances existing literature concerning disruptive technologies that may bring about jobless growth and enduring mass unemployment. Using and replicating data from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dell/Intel, Haver Analytics, The Heritage Foundation, McKinsey Global Institute, Statista, U.S. Department of Labor, and World Economic Forum, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding the potential for task automation in various occupations, forecast ratio of human/machine working hours in 2019 and 2022 (by task type), and labor productivity aided by technological advances.