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Will automation take away all our jobs?

David Autor · TED

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Here's a paradox you don't hear much about: despite a century of creating machines to do our work for us, the proportion of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the past 125 years. Why hasn't human labor become redundant and our skills obsolete? In this talk about the future of work, economist David Autor addresses the question of why there are still so many jobs and comes up with a surprising, hopeful answer.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxCambridge
Speaker
David Autor
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Engineering, Economics, Business and management, History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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