Image Credit: Pixabay The fear that machines will replace humans in the workplace is not a new one . In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes conjectured that in the years to come, modern economies would face a new kind of affliction: what Keynes called “technological unemployment.” During the Industrial Revolution — one of the more notable examples of a radical paradigm shift in the labor market due to automation — textile laborers were supplanted by steam-powered machinery. Today, we no longer manually assemble cars in factories. The days of human telephone switchboard operators are long gone. And by some […]
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