Work In The Middle Of The 20th Century

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The projection was audacious, but in at least a few cases, it probably didn’t go far enough. The share of prime-age Americans (25 to 54 years old) who are working has been trending down since 2000. But Grayson noted also that the impact of technology varied across occupations, industrial sectors, and gender.

Since the publication of their 2011 book Race Against The Machine, MIT professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson have been prominent among those raising concern about technological unemployment. Also, there is likely to be more human-robot collaboration—a change in the kind of work opportunities available. The wider impacts are the hardest to predict; they may not be strictly attributable to the uses of automation but they are related…what the middle of the 20th century shows us is how dramatic major economic changes are—like the 1970s OPEC-driven increases of the price of oil—and how those changes can dwarf the effects of technology.”
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Industriousness has served as America’s unofficial religion since its founding. This assertion is in keeping with that of Darrah . For skilled trades workers, tasks included troubleshooting, repairing equipment, programming, training new workers, diagnostic work, and making parts. But leaders face choices about how to apply cognitive technologies. They don't have the agility, and few if any robots could pick up a dime that's on a desk, even though a two or three-year-old person could do that," said