Tag: robots

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be ...

Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine a world in which almost all the work required to sustain human life on the planet is performed by intelligent machines. Think about it: All ...

Saying that new jobs will always be created to replace those that have been eliminated by automation is a mechanism for avoiding a real problem that’s lurking on the horizon. In 2004, ...

Recently I came across three articles that gave me pause. Each article was a bit disconcerting on its own merit, but when I considered them together, the result caused more than a ...