Over the last 60 years, automation has totally eliminated just one US occupation | Quartz

by Alex Kirkpatrick

16 March 2017

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Automation often replaces human labor, but very rarely in the last sixty years has it eliminated an entire occupation. Only one of the 270 detailed occupations listed in the 1950 US Census has since been eliminated by automation, according to a working paper by Harvard economist James Bessen. The one exception: elevator operator.

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