We watched a special about the “real” Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, the other night. At its peak the estate employed something like 100 people to get everything done. They now employ around 20. Some of the job loss is due to different lifestyle, but most of those jobs were lost to automation. Horses replaced with cars: no more stable employees. Washing machines replaced laundresses. And so forth. Every technological advance involves a dislocation of work, and mass unemployment: power looms put all the hand loom weavers, who had done all the cloth manufacture to that point, out of work. So where will this current revolution lead? Wait and see . . .