We've had jobless recoveries since the early '70's due to tech. OTOH I'm seeing tech as a savior in the form of 3D printing. We can all move down the complexity scale a notch and still have things, sort of go back to 19th century style, grow our own food and print about anything we can imagine. This guy is designing stuff for food production and giving away the files so people can 3D print stuff http://www.healthranger.com/index.asp