![]() ![]() ![]() A few go red with early mechanical inventions, but then the industrial revolution happens and the process massively speeds up. For most of human history, almost all the balls are blue. He then paints a picture of how the ball pit changes over time. Blue balls represent the tasks that human beings are the best at doing, and red balls those where machines have the advantage. ![]() To sum up what he thinks the future of work looks like, he imagines the economy as a giant ball pit. In the final third of his book he sets out a policy response, but I’m more interested in why he thinks it will be necessary. Will technological progress do the same to the human workforce? That’s what economists such as John Maynard Keynes and Wassily Leontief have supposed - and Susskind, also an economist, agrees with them. Suggested reading Are humans heading for the knacker’s yard? ![]()
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