More general macroeconomic conditions have “swamped any effect of robotic displacement” From apocalypses to zombie coups, humans adore doomsday tales and it’s not completely clear why. While fiction is fine, reality is of course much better so if anyone who’s even remotely credible can make a strong case for the end of the world being nigh – ideally based on “hard” data that conveniently backs up that thesis— then we’ll gobble it up in a flash. The media is perhaps guiltiest of all.
This is what appears to have happened in the curious case of the robots.
Hundreds of plausible news […]
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