In 1964, a group of professors, activists, and scientists put together a report that warned US President Lyndon B. Johnson of three impending threats, including a “Cybernation Revolution” that would put massive numbers of people out of work. The committee included a list of recommendations for staving off each crisis.
Number one was “a massive program to build up our educational system.”
Education has for decades been the proposed solution to the threat of technology that replaces human work, as people in diverse occupations from paralegal to fast food worker contemplate the possibility that machines will soon do their work faster […]
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