Lousy-But-Safe May Vanish

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The Second Machine Age authors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson imagine the future: “New varieties of robot are rapidly diffusing throughout the manufacturing and logistics industries, high-end professions like medicine and law will be affected by digital discoverers and diagnosticians, and even the stereotypically lousy-but-safe job of ‘burger-flipper’ faces competition from technology: a recently unveiled machine can convert raw materials into more than 300 totally customized burgers per hour.”

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