“Right now, manufacturing is being transformed by automation, technology, robots and machines,” Yang said. “The five most common employment sectors in the United States, and also South Carolina, are administrative and clerical (which includes call centers), retail, food services and food prep, truck driving and transportation, and manufacturing. Those five job sectors are half of all American jobs. They’re more than half of the jobs here in South Carolina. They are all getting reduced very, very quickly. By the time you have autonomous cars and trucks, it’s going to be disastrous for many communities.”