With jobs being automated and handed off to machines at an everincreasing pace, it's only natural to consider what our future will look like. Will humans have more free time to spend with loved ones? More time to pursue hobbies and fulfilling activities? Or will the status quo prevail, leaving us to work increasingly meaningless jobs for the sake of squeezing every penny of profit out of human life? Let's talk about two possible futures of automation.

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The Two Futures Of Automation – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Robots
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/0...
https://time.com/5556339/artificiali...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
https://www.gppi.net/2019/04/24/autom...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
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Theory
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3104202 (available with a free account)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

The Industrial Revolution
https://www.britannica.com/event/Indu...
https://www.britannica.com/technology...

Statistics
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blo...


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