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Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work

2017-11-14 Change

“Every day sees the perfection of some new mechanical miracle that enables one man to do better and more quickly what many men used to do. In the past six years especially, our progress in the lavish use of power and in harnessing that power to high-speed productive machinery has been tremendous. Nothing like it has ever been seen on earth. But what is all this machinery doing for us? What is it doing to us? I think the time is ripe for us to pause and inquire.” - James J. Davis, US Secretary of Labor in 1927

*Automation and Job Loss: The Fears of 1927