Teamwork

I've been reading a couple of stimulating books which deal, from very different angles, with the future of work.  Martin Ford's The Rise of the Robots sets out some pretty scary pointers to just how much work might be handed over to automated processes: not just routine manual processes but quite a lot of what we now consider to be intellectual and non-routine.  He suggests that we may be heading quickly towards the scenario sketched out by Keynes, where people will work far far fewer hours - the difference being that in the modern version there will be colossal inequalities as the benefits of automation will go to a very small…
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