With Trump and Uber, the driverless futurecould turn into a nightmare John Harris

The Guardian - The automation revolution is no longer a sci-fi dreambut millions of jobs may go, fuelling yet more alienation and dismayThe future is herenot in the shape of Facebook, Twitter and all the rest, but in a drastic change to one of civilisations basic requirements: getting humans from place to place. On Wednesday, Uber added a second American city to an experiment that will soon expand: having already done so in Pittsburgh, it transported paying customers around San Francisco in cabs