How we educate kids today is another subject entirely, but on the surface, lots of the homework they bring home is essentially a process that meets a lot of the criteria for RPA: Repetitive, dull, certainly prone to errors (bless them), time consuming. My junior disruptor may not be as daft as he seems. "Great, so the robots can do my homework for me then?" Sighs. The kids' response was "Yay, they'll do our jobs for us!" That may be right, I responded, but boys then we won't have any jobs, and they won't need us, and we'll have to eat beans every day and they will be our boss, and they may eventually "decommission" us.
They got on and of course they couldn't find the robot, so I explained to them it's not the kind of robot they've seen in Star Wars, it was software and that in the future, lots of jobs done by humans today will instead be done by software robots - like "driving" an autonomous bus. I explained to my sons, then 9 and 7, that it was a robot driving this bus. It came not long after reading Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford at this point I was petrified that there wouldn’t be any jobs for my kids to do in the future and I'd be supporting them into their "retirement".
Last year at the Olympic park, I saw an autonomous bus, driving visitors around a simple route.
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