Review by Russell Whitehouse
Automation has been a buzzword on the tips of many thinker’s tongues for a while now. The media, Silicon Valley and, most earnestly, Andrew Yang have been warning of an impending crisis of robot-fueled unemployment with increasing alarm. Aaron Benanav has contributed an unorthodox take on this issue in “ Automation and the Future of Work ”.
Instead of “Automation and the Future of Work”, I think the book should have been called, “Dreaming of Full Automation and The Present Decline of Work”. Benanav points out that global employment has been stagnating since the 1970s. The […]
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