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The Sunday Debate: The Robots are Coming and They Will Steal Our Livelihoods

Intelligence Squared

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The Modern Computer Is Our End All

Every succeeding generation has had a new wave of worry, dire warnings that jobs are being threatened. But in each one of these cases, they turned out to be wrong. Take the mechanical looms i just talked about. They were invented in 18 hundred in leon france. Did they end up reducing employment in the textile industry? There no. Two centuries later, leon is the top center for producing textdials. It's the home of the textile and chemical institute, four other institutes, forty labs,. A hundred and forty companies and ten thousand textile jobs. We have 200 years of data showing that. Technology can indeed be disruptive. It can disrupt certain jobs, as mister

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