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rise of the robots technology and the threat of a jobless future by martin ford introduction sometime during the 1960s the nobel laureate economist milton friedman was consulting with the government of a developing asian nation friedman was taken to a large-scale public works project where he was surprised to see large numbers of workers wielding shovels but very few bulldozers tractors or other heavy earth-moving equipment when asked about this the government official in charge explained that the project was intended as a jobs program friedman's caustic reply has become famous so then why not give the workers spoons instead of shovels friedman's remark captures the skepticism and often outright derision expressed by economists confronting fears about the prospect of machines destroying jobs and creating long-term unemployment historically that skepticism appears to be well-founded in t