Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Martin Ford, author of “Rise of the Robots,” speaks at Michigan Technological University Saturday. HOUGHTON — Within years, the increase of automation could put millions of people out of work and cause economic chaos, advisers warned the president.
The president was Lyndon Johnson, and the warnings of wide-scale catastrophe in the mid-1960s didn’t come to pass — then. However, they may have been not so much wrong as premature, author Martin Ford said.
Ford, author of the book “Rise of the Robots” spoke about the future of automation at the Rozsa Center at Michigan Technological University Saturday […]
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