This was still two years before John Maynard Keynes would coin the term “technological unemployment” — but over a century after people had begun to fear the concept.
The most famous resisters, of course, were the Luddites. Ask 100 people what they know about Luddites, and you’ll get something along the lines of, “They smashed up machines because they didn’t like technology.”
It’s a tidy narrative. But the real world is rarely that tidy.According to Clive Thompson in Smithsonian magazine , at the turn of the 19th century, weavers, spinners and croppers were high-skilled workers who took pride in their products […]
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