Forrester estimated that 1 million sellers would be out of their jobs by 2020 in the United States! Source: Forrester 2015 Death of Salesman report. They estimated a decline of 1M€ sellers, from 4.5 to 3.5 million from 2015 to 2020. I would have had more respect for them if they would have called it what it should have been called.
The death of the Product-centric seller!