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Interview: Brad DeLong, author of Slouching Towards Utopia

Ordinary Astronauts

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The Social Professions Will Carry Us for a Long Time

The social professions will carry us for a long time. We did an awful lot of data processing software bot work and then communications software bot work. So that will no longer be hiring graphic artists in large numbers. What are people going to do when we no longer need human brains as microcontrollers for hardware bots, except for a small number?

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