erate, over the coming
man
d e c a d e .
the end, as Lee Rainie, When the world popu-
Where they
capabilities”.
another
In likely to be created.
c o - lation was a few hun-
author
of dred
million
people
t h e there were hundreds of
millions of jobs. Alt-
split
is
in the societal response
to
that
dis-
placement.
report,
The optimists predict
that
the
economic
hough
puts
it,
it
could
result
t h e r e
in
a
have
boom that would result
“freedom from day-to-
from
day drudger that allows unemployed
costs
vastly
to
reduced
businesses
ways
in a more positive and billion
tion of new jobs in
socially beneficial way”.
newfound
premium
Microsoft’s
that
value of work that re-
continue
quires
jobs,
hu-
people,
people
there
were billions of jobs.
Jonathan There is no shortage of
Grudin told researchers things that need to be
being placed on the
“uniquely
been
people to define work when we reached a few
would lead to the creahuge numbers, and a
al-
“Technology
but
to
will done and that will not
disrupt change.”
more
jobs
But
the
pessimists
seem worry that the benefits
of the labor replacement
will
accrue
to
those already wealthy
enough to own the automatons, be that in
the form of patents for
algorithmic workers or
the physical form of
robots.