This is a question that has been asked since prehistory. Obviously it's an important one, but you could write books on it and still not cover all the angles.Anyway Pine thinks that technology and employment have an S shaped relationship.1. New Technology develops. A tiny handful of people work on it.2. NT causes unemployment due to efficiency. Number of people working on the NT balloon in size.3. New jobs are developed in some field, often not in the same one as the field the NT changed.4. NT becomes so efficient layoffs begin and it becomes a smaller part of the economy (there isn't a relationship between size and importance since a very inefficient sector would have lots of people in work).5. Repeat.The potential of A.I is vastly overrated as any scientist will tell you. It is computer programs themselves that destroy jobs, not especially A.I systems. I mean a fair number of AI systems do jobs that humans can't do and never did do. The middle classes in their desk jobs will be thrown out of work long before the baby sitters, swimming instructors and gardeners get the chop. Robotics is getting better yes, but the majority of so called intellectual tasks like being a doctor, surgeon, lawyer or engineer are actually much easier for computer programs to automate than things which require physical movements. It's harder for computers to flip burgers than replace accountants. Most of the jobs we don't normally think of as being "hard" are easy for computers. Conversely computers make better mathematicians than your average human. Computers are capable of inventing new theorems but not making movies (except ones involving Adam Sandler).Wait.. This would imply the Government program to encourage everybody to get a PhD is full of shit. Looks like Mommy and Daddy are full of it as well. The future is drugs on the internet or developing killer robots, so get with the program comrades!