Donald Trump got elected in part by appealing to blue-collar America, blaming the loss of U.S. jobs on immigration and bad trade deals with China, and pledging to improve the situation.
He largely ignored one key issue: automation.
"They are not talking about technology, robots and automation and factories, but that is a big part of it," says Martin Ford, the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, in a phone conversation with CNBC.
"Trump and his supporters are talking about trade, they are talking about immigration. Actually, I think technology is at least as important, maybe more important," says Ford.