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461. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse

Freakonomics Radio

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Increasing Expertise in the High Tech Professions

Patents emerging for new ways of hardening nails, not the nails you mount into wood. Patents for solo ic electricians, people who install solar cells. People could be much more effective in that work and more productive if they were augmented by technology. Not every profession benefits from this kind of tec augmentation. If you are doing one of those things that allof asudden o machine can do better than you your opportunity set contracts will disappear....

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