Thriving in the Automated Economy.
The article discusses the impact of technologies on the well-being of workers and their societies. It argues that, although the Industrial Revolution coincided with increasing numbers of jobs, there is no law of economics that states that that will always be true. As remedies to possible unemploymen...
| Publicado en: | Futurist Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 27 - 32 |
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World Future Society
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