The Rise of a Useless Class

The introduction of machinery into agriculture in the 1800s freed millions from the farm to flock to the cities where, fortunately, an industrial revolution was also occurring and provided employment for a new working class. Historian Uval Noah Harari fears the "AI (artificial intelligence) revolution will create a new 'unworking' class. 

The most important question is whether this will be also be a "useless class." What can people do that AI driven machines cannot?  What will the machines do? Click here for Mr. Harari's look ahead from his book "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow"  in which he warns of the rise of not only an "Unworking Class," but a "Useless Class."