Isn’t it intriguing how two people can read this article and either feel optimistic about the coming technological and cultural emergence or pessimistic enough to want to contract everything that they own?

It's the key difference scarcity vs. abundance mindset. Your example of Manna is a prime example of how one could begin to think about future outcomes.

I have no doubt that the future of jobs will be a gradual but increasing replacement of human tasks with robotic automation, machine learning and AI. Its literally happening already to thousands of people everyday. A few years ago the “scare” was that American jobs were being outsourced/offshored. This next transition is so much bigger. Many people are scared and already felling the grind.

Anyone looking for a safe career will be disappointed. Anyone not willing to accept the fact that his skills today may be obsolete within 1–2 years is kidding himself. The near-term future will be mostly project and micro-task-based collaborations with a dynamic pool of digital nomadic-types bouncing from opportunity to opportunity.

This is already happening with services like Freelancer and Upwork except that the model stinks as it promotes a race-to-the-bottom type of auction for the cheapest labor. The answer will be more reputation-scoring (a tactic that LinkedIn is betting the farm on today).

Anyway sorry for the long winded response Jordan but I loved this article and I truly believe that we will not get to the tipping point of a future based on abundance until more people understand the points that you are making and convert to an abundance mindset. It's a game changer.