how automation has affected our lives today
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Technological advances often appeared to take away jobs, yes, but in the long run they lead to an increase and diversification of jobs.
“And yet, the fraction of US adults employed in the labor market is higher now in 2016 than it was 125 years ago, in 1890, and it's risen in just about every decade in the intervening 125 years.”
And most of the products we spend our money on today was unattainably expensive, or not even invented yet...
“ The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year”
Total Internet All adults 18+: 27 hours 49 minutes
TVAll adults 18+: 29 hours 18 minutes
TIME SPENT, BY MEDIUM (per week per capita)
“When you think that 100 years ago people were lucky to read the equivalent of 50 books in a lifetime but now most children have watched a couple of hundred movies.”
Autonomous Vehicles • The trend is already being paved
• “17-year-olds with drivers’ licenses down to 45% in 2010 from more than two-thirds in 1978”
International Federation of Robotics said in a study last month that “paid employment has increasedin countries that are the biggest users of industrial robots.”
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