The 21st century: The Great Job Apocalypse That Isn't Actually Happening! Every few decades, humanity gets into a collective panic about technology stealing our jobs. It's like we're a bunch of paranoid chickens convinced that every new machine is a fox waiting to devour us whole. In the 1960s, scientists were dramatically predicting a "Cybernation Revolution" that would create a "nation of the poor, unskilled, and unemployed." Spoiler alert: Didn't happen. The Truth About Jobs and AI: Why We're Not All Doomed... Yet Back in the 1930s, a California mayor was so terrified of industrial technology that he wrote to the US President warning about a "Frankenstein monster" that would "consume our civilization." I'm pretty sure the only thing that got consumed was his dramatic letter by the nearest office shredder. Fast forward to today, and we're playing the same apocalyptic tune with Artificial Intelligence. The...
