Probably no one needs as much convincing regarding the future of automation and its impact on employment as Jason E. Smith and Aaron Benanav, who have recently authored the following two books: Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation and Automation and the Future of Work . Each serves as a calming antidote to the often hyperbolic pronouncements emanating from popular and scholarly accounts.
Remarkable about both books is the degree to which they cover the same terrain and use similar arguments to debunk a cult of automation that has excited nouveau-billionaires like Elon Musk while […]
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