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System Failure

Paradigm Shift (Part II)

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Nathan Knopp
Mar 07, 2022
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This two-part essay is all about the growing problem of technology gradually making human labor redundant. In Part I, the fictional world of The Expanse served to illustrate the point. The writers of that popular sci-fi show extrapolated our current situation into the future, and a gloomy dystopia with mass unemployment is what they saw in store for us.…

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