It will come - inevitably. Just as it has for lamplighters, typists, assembly workers, stock traders, hotel workers etc. 'Hold on', I hear you cry, 'they're not exactly skilled employees!' OK, so how about the computer operators, programmers and analysts employed by big companies when Burroughs/Univac/NCR/CDC/Honeywell and IBM ruled business information just 30 years ago? What about the engineers who used to actually visit customers when their mainframes broke?
'Not really the same as pilots though'. So what about the train drivers looking forward to a career on the DLR...drone pilots in the military? So many examples if you look.
It won't happen for commercial pilots on here now - or probably the ones looking to start a career in the next five years...but happen it will.