Rogue One , the latest in the Star Wars franchise, has had mixed reviews but features one undisputed star: K-2SO, a gangly robot with the best lines. Movies of the distant future always tap into current anxieties, and the latest alarm is that the robots are coming. Droids may not conquer the world, but they will take over its work—white-collar as well as blue-collar. Could these filmmakers know something we don’t?
Previous scares, such as when TIME magazine reported on "the automation jobless" in the early 1960s, were just that. But many technology gurus insist that this time is different […]
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