It'll probably end up like in the last days of the USSR; Everyone standing around drinking vodka doing nothing at the factory. Where I used to work years ago, we cleaned all the industrial centrifuges manually, now they are automated like the rest of the system; All we did was just program the settings into the machines and it would carry out the operations... Now it is fully automated everything in the plant. The Owner still keeps workers around because he probably knows that for the economy they are necessary, no one ever gets layed off at that plant... but everyone just stands around for hours doing nothing just watching the machines do their thing, people are just there for back-up now.