Will Robots Make Us More Human?04:33

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Published on January 22, 2017

Alquist: …all the workers in the world will be out of a job.
Domin: Yes, they will be, Alquist. They will be, Miss Glory. But in ten years’ time Rossum’s Universal Robots will be making so much wheat, so much material, so much of everything that nothing will cost anything. Everyone will be able to just take as much as he needs. Nobody will live in poverty. They won’t have jobs, that’s true, but that’s because there won’t be any jobs to do. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only the things they want to do, they can live their lives just so that they can make themselves perfect.

-R.U.R. by Karel Capek (1920)

*** Sources & ***

BOOKS

Working by Studs Terkel

Science And Technology In World History by James E. McClellan, Harold Dorn

Leonardo To The Internet by Thomas J Misa

ARTICLES

Lice & Clothing

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

Why Studs Terkels Working World No Longer Exists

If The Robots Steal All Our Jobs Then Wages Will Be Rising At 200% Per Year: What Problem Is That?

Is Work Good Or Bad by Gary Gutting

A World Without Work by Derek Thompson

The Satire Of The Trades

Luddites

Court Jesters

Sploot Review

The Development and History Of Horticulture

DATA

The End Of Extreme Poverty by 2030

American Time Use Survey

USDA Disposable Personal Income Spent On Food

GDP Per Person

Labor Force for Historical Statistics of the United States

Retail Prices Of Selected Foods In U.S. Cities 1890-2015

Our World In Data

Consumer Goods And Hours Of Work

Number Of Jobs Held In A Lifetime

BRITISH PATHÉ FOOTAGE

Blacksmith: Edison Kinetoscope 1895

Horse Drawn Fire Engine

Steel Works Factory

Factory Girls On Strike

Staff Going Into Gate of Varnish Factory 1920-1929

A Century Of Progress – First Locomotive

Weaving 1952

Weaving 1940-1949

Women Bakers 1914-1918

Iron Foundry Workers Required 1947

Greece – Prior To De Gaulle’s Visit 1963

Skeleton Tailor 1949

Gold Beaters 1952

Electric Car In 1940

Gentle Giant Aka Robot 1958

Brave Fire Fighters 1918

Down And Outs 1950-1959

A Day In The Life Od Hungarian Fashion Model 1965

Guard Shoemaker 1943

ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE

Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey

THANKS TO EXPERT ADVISORS

Thanks To British Pathé

Steven Horwitz

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Paintings by Giovanni Caselli

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