Robots Won't Replace Humans, They'll Simply Transform Their Work

Robots Won’t Replace Humans, They’ll Simply Transform Their Work

Are the Luddites staging a comeback? In the early 1900s, it was the British weavers and textile workers in the early 1900s, who destroyed machinery to protest newly developed manufacturing machinery they feared would rob them of their livelihoods. Recently, there appears to be a growing chorus of voices sounding the alarm on automation stealing all of our jobs to those invoking doomsday prophecies of a Hollywood-style “Rise of the Machines” taking over our world as we know it. This begs the question of whether we’re seeing a resurgence of Luddite sentiments. Critics of automation are quick to cite a 2013 University of Oxford study which predicts that over the course of the next one to two decades, nearly fifty percent of jobs may be automated. Without context, those numbers…


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