The rise of automation and the replacement of the working class by machinery is not something that is necessarily “new”. It’s an issue as old as the concept of technology that has really begun to rear its head in the last half-century or so.
But while many focus on the effects automation has on factory workers and unskilled laborers, it was generally thought that people with high-skill careers, such as doctors, would be safe from the coming rise of the machines. Turns out, that may not be the case.