We’ve gone through speedy, and at times shocking, technological progress over the past twenty or thirty years.
I’m 30 and remember watching VHS tapes. The tapes were expensive, wore out, were difficult to store, degraded, and weren’t mobile. We can now get much better video quality, on demand, with no storage need, no worries about wear or degradation, virtually any time and anywhere on any modern mobile device. That’s just an example of what twenty years ago would have seemed impossible is now routine.
We’ve already been through a major wave of job loss in manufacturing and other blue collar industries. […]
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