Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?

By: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 22 mins

Publisher's summary

The debate over what technology does to work, jobs, and wages is as old as the industrial era itself. In the second decade of the nineteenth century, a group of English textile workers called the Luddites protested the introduction of spinning frames and power looms, machines of the nascent Industrial Revolution that threatened to leave them without jobs. Since then, each new burst of technological progress has brought with it another wave of concern about a possible mass displacement of labor.

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