There's at least a very popular opinion that the accelerated rate of technological progress will make humans the horses of the 21st century, that is, we'll be replaced at jobs by technology faster than (most of us) can be retrained, and that most of us will be rendered useless and left in the cold.
The article itself was about that debate still going on, so it seems disingenuous to say you werent aware it was still being discussed.
