"There is something almost Freudian in these robot takeover terrors, which foretell that the technology we fathered will rise up against us, rendering us obsolete or even extinct...
“Every invention ever made caused some people to lose jobs,” says Mr. Mokyr. “In a good society, when this happens, they put you out to pasture and give you a golf club and a condo in Florida. In a bad society, they put you on the dole, so you have just enough not to starve, but that’s about it.”...
Any job that can be reduced to an algorithm will be, leading to the displacement of workers in industries as diverse as retail and radiology."
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Published: February 2, 2013
The New York Times
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