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Creating With The Machines
The Luddites were a group of expert
weavers in the 19th century who, upon seeing that the invention of the factory loom had
made their skills obsolete, smashed the machines in protest. Ever since,
“Luddites” has become a disparaging term for those who fear technological
advance.
As I wrote previously in Forbes, we all luddites now, at least in the sense that many of the
hard won skills that we’ve come to depend on for income and social status are
now being automated.
MIT's Erik brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee have argued that
the solution is to learn to “race with the machines;” to become less like the
mythical John Henry struggling to outdo a
steam hammer and more like an Indy car driver, using technology to race at
incredible speed. If so, we will need to not only redefine work, but
ourselves as well.
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