I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.