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Were the Luddites right to be worried about a future without work?

Industrialisation has an ugly history. What could go wrong this time around?

Wed, 13 Feb 2019

Classic sci-fi writers expected that by now there would be Moon colonies and manned missions to Mars.

But they had no inkling of a world revolutionised by a global network of devices thousands of times more powerful than the room-sized computers of their day.

Yet they did write a lot about

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