Look at the last columns of this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32829232

"Like it or not we are moving into a post-work future. According to some estimates, half the eligible global workforce is currently unemployed.

Technical innovations are exponentially automating routine manual labour and now cognitive work too. Our work-centric society is swiftly becoming obsolete. No matter how much governments bribe the business sector with tax breaks and subsidies to keep people employed in needless jobs, the necessity of work is rapidly disappearing.

As a society we probably secretly know all of this. But we have no idea what to do next.

Almost all of our institutions have been built around the mythology of work. Our very sense of self-worth is based upon it. It is almost taboo to even question work.

Regardless, the possibility of a jobless future might soon be a reality. It's up to us to decide whether this future is going to be a nasty nightmare (involving corpses frozen at their desks) or a beautiful paradise of play."


I like this:
"But we have no idea what to do next"
Here is a hint:
play Starpoint Gemini 3

:)

Joke aside, it is a real problem. It is expected for a lot of clerical works to became redundant by the end of this year due to a new semi-AI, that is able to write reports, news articles, do basic research, write and answer emails to a specification and do finance clerking better and faster than humans do. And - I think most importantly - a lot cheaper.

An other semi-AI is being developed to recognize and analyze X-ray images looking for fractures and such. This work required human judgment and experience up until now - my wife does just that and she simply cannot believe that anytime soon a machine would be able to do it. Google's Machine Learning is aimed right for that.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630151.700-ai-interns-software-already-taking-jobs-from-humans.html?page=1#.VWcxnc9VhBc

It is happening now.