Actually, if we want to take it a step further, it is software that is replacing people. For 3 decades we witnessed the jobs in the manufacturing sector destroyed by technology (contrary to the propaganda put out that it was China and Mexico which took all the jobs). Now, we are going to see the same thing happen in the white collar sector. The problem that society has it is a much easier to write software to automate a white collar job than it is to create robotics with the dexterity to do what human workers do.

This is why the speed of things is really going to be outrageous. The next 3 years are going to wipe out so many jobs that society wont know what hit them.