We did automate for the last 200 years, and it created more creative jobs as a return, less manual labor and more mental/creative labor. Now we're about to automate that as well. I am not sure there is anything else to take it's place this time though.
I'm finding a lot of the comments here very odd. This exact thing was covered in the article, indeed, was the core thing covered in the article. This is just a restatement of something the article spends significant time debating. You need to say what you found lacking in that counterargument, not just restate the position.
