Technology accelerates by leaps and bounds, which can only spell doom for most workers’ economic prospects. How long before a robot or algorithm can do your job, leading to mass " technological unemployment ?"
Machines are learning to master once-unthinkable tasks . Yet, even though our software can best us at Jeopardy! and our hardware has learned to run and jump , there’s still no consensus among economists that we’re entering a world without a need for humans.
Layoffs are an unfortunate consequence of innovation. Refrigerators replaced the milk man and faxes and computers decimated the ranks of the post office […]
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