Machine uprising? Please.

Why’s everybody worrying about the machine uprising?  We’re much more likely to see an uprising of people against the machines.

So says sociologist Zeynep Tufekci in her article about the Third Machine Age.  After the first age, in which machines replaced manual laborers, and the second age, in which machines took over thinking for us, many believe the Third Machine Age will be about machines taking over emotional labor—caring for our children, our sick and infirm, our old.  Tufekci believes that could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.