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Daily Archives: September 2, 2014

The Data Are Clear: Robots Do Not Create Unemployment

ArticlesBy Mark MillsSeptember 2, 2014

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the first electronic thinking machine that displaced knowledge workers. In February 1944, Britain’s Colossus, the world’s first computer, started to ‘think’ and successfully automate human mental labor. By the summer of 1944 there were three such machines hard at work. The rest, as they say, is history.

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