These purchases were "the biggest indication yet that Google is trying to create a new class of autonomous systems [robots] that could do everything from loading work to package delivery and care for the elderly," said the news from The New York Times.1 And, within weeks of each other, global consulting firm McKinsey published an extensive report entitled Technological Disruption, in which it warned that new technologies would leave not only millions of manufacturing workers out of work, but also between 110 and 140 million office workers and professionals by 2025.2 Suddenly, many began to wonder