The debate surrounding today’s smart machines often reminds me of the legend of John Henry, which dates from the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution. You may remember John Henry as the “steel-driving man” who went head-to-head against a steam-powered hammer to prove that a man could outperform a machine. He won the contest, but his heart burst in the effort and John Henry died.
In the modern version of that American folktale, machines are coming to take away our jobs again. This time, it is robotics, artificial intelligence , and other digital technologies that will supposedly transform our companies […]
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