When Machines Do Your Job [View all]

[Flaxbee]

Automation and robotics are very interesting from a technology standpoint, but increasing "efficiency" = many, many fewer jobs in the future.



Are American workers losing their jobs to machines?

That was the question posed by Race Against the Machine, an influential e-book published last October by MIT business school researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. The pair looked at troubling U.S. employment numbers—which have declined since the recession of 2008-2009 even as economic output has risen—and concluded that computer technology was partly to blame.

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