Predictions of the 21st Century

Most predictions of the future are on improving the general quality of life. Bigger and better food, better means of transportation, better medicine, less work, and cheaper goods. Some specifics are telephones, TV, microwaves, self-driving cars, and climate controlled houses. Some less accurate predictions are the elimination of most animal life, children being trained to run 10 miles a day, personal flying machines. I found very few predictions of bad things happening in the future; most people assumed that suffering would be all but eliminated. 

My personal predictions of the future are almost entirely about robots. As robotics develops, to replace almost all jobs. as robots are more and more able to replace humans, humans will inevitably be driven out of the workplace all together. The only major sources of jobs that may survive are politics, entertainment, and of course people who design robots. 

Individuals will only have the power to gently influence whatever larger organization they are a pert of. Institutions, and for profit companies will largely push humans out of the work place simply because robots will be cheaper and more affordable than human workers. The government is the only institution that could slow down the transition,  but in the end the economic benifits of robot labor will make this change an inevitability.