Max is going to India and China. They're going to go away, period. In fact, there was a whole section in the stuff I wrote that did not get in, but one of the points was that outsourcing was just sort of the first step to robotization. And so anything that you can imagine being outsourced would eventually make it to the cheapest, cool labor,. That's exactly what happened to the farmers.
Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about measuring productivity in the internet age and recent claims that the U.S. economy has entered a prolonged period of stagnation. Then the conversation turns to the potential of robots to change the quality of our daily lives.