On Nov 19, 2018, at 11:19 AM, John Robinson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> The large disrupter is going to be where in the world will these folks work > in 20 years? Society has to solve this huge issue….if I was still living > where would I be working!! There will be disruption, but society will adjust. It’s happened before. Read about the Luddites in early nineteenth century England. It’s clear now they were on the wrong side of history because the mechanization they were fighting actually expanded their industry and created more jobs than it destroyed. How about the societal adjustments at the turn of the twentieth century? The industrialization and automation killed child labor and reduced the work week from 60+ hours down to 40. Automation in agriculture in the mid twentieth century has made the small-time farmer extinct, but has fed billions. (And here’s a place where they’re already using self-driving machinery to plow fields and plant crops.) A Nobel prize winner wrote: Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’. L^2 --- Lee Larson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. — Winston Churchill,
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