"This could have a serious impact upon jobs"
Even with all of this new awesome TECH we still have a large portion of the population that rely on those types of jobs, and very soon they will start disappearing, and our restaurants, hotels, and stores will not need many positions like cashiers.
At Walmart 2 Associates maintain 12 self-check-out registers. The self-check-out registers are the future Walmart sees it only needs 1/6 of its front-end associates which is huge.
I am thinking the highest unemployment numbers ever.