Hello, Welcome back, Pension Geeks! I hope all of you had a good August. This is the thirty-sixth issue of Allison’s Ode to the Second Moment, the newsletter on the risk that robots will take your job and other catastrophes. End of lectures For as long as people have labored, new technologies came along and changed the jobs people did and how they worked. Now is no different, and yet some jobs seem immune to this change, for example: teaching. For thousands of years, teaching has consisted of a learned person lecturing and asking questions to solicit the students’ responses. Teaching requires a teacher and cannot be outsourced to a machine—or so it seemed.