I fail to see in this article where the author backs up this claim:
> automation is replacing both brawn and brains and is leaving little for humans to do that computers can't.
It will be a very long time until computer automation can replaced knowledge workers.
At the moment, technology is making knowledge workers more effective and efficient. It's not even close to replacing them.
Let's not try to solve problems we don't yet have.
The claim of replacing physical labor is legitimate. But if you look at china or the US, the amount of kids getting educated in universities, whose parents worked as labours has exploded.
The key now is getting the kids to have useful skillsets to the industries that need them. Which is something universities have been failing to promote accurately compared to the demands of the market.
Making knowledge workers more effective and efficient replaces some of them.
I work at a former tech giant, now a small media company. 10-15 years ago, this company hired people to write a scalable TCL enabled webserver [1], a time series collection system, and all sorts of other basic software systems.
Today, you'd just use apache, graphite, etc. You wouldn't hire someone to build them for you. Technology has replaced developers.