in past industrialevolutions, that is what we have seen happen. hopefully, i think it will be what happens again. narrator: what if this doesn't happen? martin ford is a software entrepreneur. he has appeared into the future economy and sees the world where potentially hundreds of millions of skilled workers are out of a job. >> i would say that if you look far enough into the future, there is no job anywhere in our economy, there is nothing that anyone does that is completely safe. that includes artists and novelists, the jobs you would imagine now are completely beyond the scope of artificial intelligence. millions of jobs are going to be lost. it is unlikely enough jobs will be created to absorb those workers. ♪ narrator: martin ford is a software entrepreneur who has a chilling vision of the future. his best-selling books have put him at the forefront of a movement which worries about technology, the speed of growth, and the immense potential it has to change the world. this is the fourth industrial revolution, the advent of machines powered b