Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by AVAVA and Chris Collins, via Getty Images Will robots take away our jobs?
People have been asking that question for an astonishingly long time. The Regency-era British economist David Ricardo added to the third edition of his classic “Principles of Political Economy,” published in 1821, a chapter titled “ On Machinery ,” in which he tried to show how the technologies of the early Industrial Revolution could, at least initially, hurt workers. Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 novel “ Player Piano ” envisaged a near-future America in which automation has eliminated most employment.
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