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{"id":2009,"date":"2017-06-23T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2018-01-05T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:05:46","slug":"technology-work-and-the-future-ii-the-view-from-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/technology-work-and-the-future-ii-the-view-from-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology, Work, and The Future II: &#8220;Where The Jobs Go&#8221;: The View From <em>Galaxy Science Fiction<\/em> in 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Over five decades ago, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Frederick Pohl wrote an editorial entitled &#8220;Where the Jobs Go&#8221;, which appeared in the April, 1966 edition of of <em>Galaxy Science Fiction<\/em>.\u00a0 The impetus for his essay was the New York City Transit Strike of January, 1966 (1).\u00a0 That event created an intellectual springboard for musings about the relationship between automation, information technology and employment, particularly in terms of the diminution &#8211; if not outright elimination &#8211; of existing occupations.\u00a0 Writing in the midst of the strike &#8211; with the cancellation of bus and subway transportation affecting millions of New Yorkers &#8211; the issues Pohl raised are even more pressing today than in 1966.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2012 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-766x1024.jpg 766w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-768x1027.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-1200x1604.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Pohl presented a specific example of the effects of technological change on employment, through his discussion about the future of publishing, with representatives of the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information (a.k.a. &#8220;ISI&#8221;) (2), and, Simon and Schuster.\u00a0 He clearly foresaw what today would be termed \u201con demand\u201d publishing.\u00a0 Though he didn&#8217;t specifically estimate <em>when<\/em> this would occur, he understood that for the replication of printed information, the central dependence on and necessity for human activity, and in turn specific job categories, could in time be eliminated.\u00a0 In the mid-1960s, this was in the areas of linotype operation, printing, binding, storage, and sales.\u00a0 Bypassing and eventually supplanting the these steps &#8211; and the human role in them &#8211; could enable a customer; a user; a consumer; to produce a book, \u201con order, anywhere in the world\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> Which is where we\u2019re at today.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> Another notable aspect of Pohl\u2019s editorial was the realization that there is a natural and perhaps inevitable tendency to perceive the uses, effects, and implications of any new technology through the context of the past.\u00a0 Pohl\u2019s \u201ctwelfth-century armaments expert\u201d has appeared throughout history in all venues of human endeavor: technological, military, economic, educational, and political. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> Pohl&#8217;s other examples included bank tellers, retail clerks, and accounts.\u00a0 he realized that the commonality among these occupations was their general predictability and codification.\u00a0 His prediction: Technological advances in electronics (&#8220;black boxes&#8221;) would eventually supplant established work activities, let alone categories of employment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Pohl didn&#8217;t really address issues that would in time (our time) be wrought by these changes.\u00a0 Instead, he concluded by simply suggesting &#8211; simplistically and optimistically; resignedly and pragmatically &#8211; their acceptance:\u00a0 &#8220;Postponing this revolution or slowing it down isn\u2019t going to make us very well indeed; let\u2019s swallow it and get it over!&#8221;\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Perhaps he couldn&#8217;t have foreseen &#8211; could anyone? &#8211; the magnitude to which the issues he discussed &#8211; in terms of both physical and intellectual activity; in terms of social cohesion; in terms of geopolitical stability; in terms of ethics and morality &#8211; would rise to prominence only a few decades later.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">His editorial follows below&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">WHERE THE JOBS GO<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">As this is written, the city of New York is tying itself in knots because of a strike in the Transport Workers Union.\u00a0 All of the city subways, and nearly all of its buses, are idle.\u00a0 Workers can\u2019t get to their jobs; shoppers can\u2019t get to stores; salesmen can\u2019t call on their customers; theatergoers can\u2019t reach the plays for which they have bought tickets months in advance \u2013 in a word, the normal operations of the city have stopped.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">All of this costs money.\u00a0 The current guess is that the paralysis of the city is costing it something like $100,000,000 a day or substantially more than the combined expense of the space program, the war in Vietnam and Medicare put together.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">It is our opinion that this is only a beginning, because it begins to look clear to us that the real squeeze brought about by automation is going to express itself \u2013 has already begun to express itself \u2013 in a wave of strikes such as we\u2019ve never seen before.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">True, automation is not technically an issue in this strike.\u00a0 The TWU had its confrontation with the machines \u2013 the \u201cHeadless Horseman\u201d, as Mike Quill called it \u2013 when the subways installed the first automated tracks a few years ago.\u00a0 At union insistence the Transit Authority provided a standby motorman on the train, whose principal efforts consisted of walking from one end of the train to the other each time it came to the end of its run.\u00a0 The automated was destroyed accidentally in a fire after a year\u2019s trial \u2013 apparently to the unspoken relief of all parties.\u00a0 There has been no announcement of any plan to build another, but we would judge that its ghost haunts the negotiating tables.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Nearly all of the subway jobs involved are relatively unskilled \u2013 changemakers, conductors, station guards, motormen \u2013 with only a comparatively small number involved in maintenance, repair, construction and other more technically demanding jobs.\u00a0 And this is the edge that cuts.\u00a0 The subway workers have not been through the automation shakeout, when a large number of repetitive jobs are obsoleted and the jobs that are left require more training and more skill.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In other words, their productive capacity has not yet been multiplied by the machine factor.\u00a0 This produces two opposed points of view, both of them unarguable.\u00a0 Say the subway administrators and the public at large: These jobs just don\u2019t call for that kind of money, and besides it would make the expense of running the subways ridiculously high.\u00a0 Say the subway workers:\u00a0 Other people putting in the same hours earn much more; we have to live in the same world with them, we have to compete with them to buy what we want in the stores, and we can\u2019t do it unless we make as much money as they do.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">This is the classical formula for the hardest-fought wars: both sides are right.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Is there any way to avoid more and even worse strikes than this one in the transition to the Cybernetic Age?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">We doubt it very much.\u00a0 Certainly what is happening now is not the final struggle; in fact, the issues haven\u2019t even been joined.\u00a0 The present subway strike is only a taste of what will come when \u201cHeadless Horsemen\u201d are beginning to come out of the shops for all the major routes \u2013 and that day cannot be far off.\u00a0 Remember the newspaper strike of a couple years ago.\u00a0 That one was indeed fought on the issue of automation; but we have it on the word of the man who designed the systems that triggered the strike, Eugene Leonard, that it was the wrong fight at the wrong time over the wrong issues \u2013 because the systems that caused the strike were already obsolete at the time.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Not long ago we took part in a radio program with the aforementioned Gene Leonard, along with Arthur Elias of the Institute for Scientific Information and Henry Simon of Simon &amp; Schuster, talking about the future of the publishing business in the Cybernetic Age.\u00a0 We started by discussing automated typesetting, and it took exactly twelve minutes by the studio clock before we had reached a proposal for high-speed facsimile machines which would produce a book to your order, anywhere in the world.\u00a0 In twelve minutes we not only got rid of the human linotype operator, but abolished the linotype itself and went on to obsolete the printing press, the binderies, the warehouses and the publishing house\u2019s road salesmen.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Is such a new kind of publishing technologically feasible right now?\u00a0 Certainly.\u00a0 Is it likely to come into being in the next few years?\u00a0 Certainly \u2013 cultural lag doesn\u2019t permit us to move that fast \u2013 but it, or something like it, is surely the shape of the publishing business some time in the future.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">We tend to think of automation\u2019s effect on our own jobs in terms of a wilier, cheaper competitor to do the same things we\u2019re doing right now.\u00a0 In the event it isn\u2019t going to be like that at all.\u00a0 An analogy: Suppose we resurrected some twelfth-century armaments expert and asked him how he thought we should employ the resources of modern technology to build weapons.\u00a0 No doubt he would be delighted; at once he would proceed to the fabrication of sharper lances, springier bows, truer shafts; and just how far would his troops get against H-bombs or napalm grenades?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Unfortunately, our own outlook on our own jobs is largely medieval.\u00a0 The long lines of girls who used to assemble radio components don\u2019t get replaced by speedier machine assemblies; they get put out of business entirely by printed circuits.\u00a0 The stockbreeders who used to export power to the cities in the form of draft animals weren\u2019t hurt by competition from more efficient breeders.\u00a0 They simply ceased to have a market when the cities began exporting power to the farms, in the form of tractors and trucks.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Just so, in the long run (which may be measured in years or even months, these days), the bank tellers and retail clerks and accounting departments are not as likely to be replaced by whirring black boxes which accept ten-dollars bills and return change as they are to be retired completely by new electronic credit systems.\u00a0 The machines don\u2019t confine themselves to doing our jobs faster and more reliably \u2013 and cheaper.\u00a0 They make it unnecessary for a great many of our jobs to be done at all.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Meanwhile, we have the strikes.\u00a0 More and more of them, we would bet; worse and worse strikes, costing us more and more money.\u00a0 (Each day\u2019s loss to New York under the current subway strike would build a couple dozen handsome new schools.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">As long as Smith, operating at a job with only his own decision-making power, lives next door to Jones, whose decision-making power and consequent productivity is multiplied by the machine factor, they\u2019ll go on; because Smith eats as many pork chops in a year as Jones, his children wear out as many clothes, his car uses as much gas \u2013 and he wants as much money.\u00a0 Postponing this revolution or slowing it down isn\u2019t going to make us very well indeed; let\u2019s swallow it and get it over! \u2013 THE EDITOR<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">___________________<em><u><br \/>\n<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Akin to my prior post \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/communications-revolution-1947-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Past As Prologue: Technology, Work, and The Future \u2013 The View From 1947<\/a>\u201d (which was based on a <em>New Republic<\/em> article \u201cCommunications Revolution\u201d from 1947) &#8220;this&#8221; post includes &#8211; below &#8211; links to a variety of articles, essays, and a video or two.\u00a0 They cover topics such as the effect of the Internet and technological change upon employment, and, social stability (both domestically and internationally); the return &#8211; with a searing vengeance &#8211; of the question of &#8220;class&#8221; in contemporary America (it never <em>really<\/em> went away), whereby social status has become a zero-sum-game conferred through thought, belief, pose, and moral <em>intent<\/em>; the impact of automation and robotics on employment; the economic and social corrosiveness of an informational oligopoly; the cognitive and cultural effects of \u201csocial&#8221; media.\u00a0 And, in an age of ostensible meritocracy, the not uncommon lacuna between intelligence and wisdom.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> The commonality among these writings is that most (not all) have been published since February of this year (2017), when I created that \u201cfirst\u201d post covering the 1947 essay from <em>The New Republic<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For future blog posts concerning technology, economics, employment, and society, I hope to present links to similar writings, as they become available.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">____________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Thoughts of Note<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Uncertainty Without Principles<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Rod <strong>Dreher <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/economic-insecurity-nicholas-eberstadt\/?print=1#comments_controls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economic Insecurity<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The American Conservative<\/em> \u2013 February 20, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Nicholas N. <strong>Eberstadt <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/author\/nicholas-eberstadt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our Miserable 21st Century<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Commentary<\/em> &#8211; February 15, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Esther <strong>Kaplan<\/strong> (Photography by David M. <strong>Barreda<\/strong>) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vqronline.org\/reporting-articles\/2014\/06\/losing-sparta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Losing Sparta: The Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>(<em>Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em> &#8211; Summer, 2014)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Michael <strong>Lind \u2013 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americanaffairsjournal.org\/author\/michael-lind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Class War<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>American Affairs<\/em> &#8211; Summer, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> David <strong>Ramli <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-04-23\/jack-ma-sees-decades-of-pain-as-internet-upends-older-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Ma Sees Decades of Pain as Internet Upends Older Economy<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Bloomberg.com<\/em> &#8211; April 23, 2017)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Walter <strong>Scheidel <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/02\/scheidel-great-leveler-inequality-violence\/517164\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Only Thing, Historically, That\u2019s Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The Atlantic<\/em> &#8211; February 21, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Yves <strong>Smith<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/05\/impact-marketization-financialization-science-engineering-grads.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Financialization and the \u201cNew Economy\u201d Hurt Science and Engineering Grads<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Naked Capitalism.com<\/em> &#8211; May 12, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The New Zero Sum Game: Social Status in America* in the 21st Century<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">(The Aristocracy Reborn?)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Matt <strong>Stoller <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@matthewstoller\/on-mocking-dying-working-class-white-people-d0ea653a91a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Mocking Dying Working Class White People<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Medium.com<\/em> &#8211; March 24, 2017)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <em>Twitter: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\"><em>https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Lambert <strong>Strether <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/03\/frank-rich-trump-voter-liberal-eliminationist-rhetoric.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Rich, the Trump Voter, and Liberal Eliminationist Rhetoric<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Naked Capitalism.com<\/em> &#8211; March 27, 2017)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">*And beyond.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Avarice In the Guise of Altruism<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Kevin D. <strong>Williamson<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/445705\/corporate-leaders-progressive-activists-not-conservative-villains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Corporate Leaders Became Progressive Activists<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>National Review<\/em> &#8211; March 13, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Michael<strong> Hobbes <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/02\/21\/saving-the-world-one-meaningless-buzzword-at-a-time-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saving the World, One Meaningless Buzzword at a Time<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Foreign Policy<\/em> &#8211; February 21, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Robotics and Jobs: The Unknown Future<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Nicholas <strong>Carr<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=7866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Digital Industrial Complex<\/a> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Rough Type<\/em> &#8211; May 12, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Nicholas <strong>Carr <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=7887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Robot Paradox<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Rough Type<\/em> &#8211; May 16, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Tyler <strong>Cowen<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-02-16\/industrial-revolution-comparisons-aren-t-comforting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren\u2019t Comforting<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Bloomberg.com<\/em> &#8211; February 16, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Jack <strong>Ma<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/06\/21\/alibabas-jack-ma-says-people-will-work-four-hours-a-day-in-30-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Leaders Must Make &#8216;Hard Choices&#8217; or the Next 30 Years Will be Painful <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">(<em>CNBC.com<\/em> &#8211; June 21, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Cade <strong>Metz <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The AI Threat Isn\u2019t Skynet, It\u2019s the End of the Middle Class<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Wired<\/em> &#8211; February 20, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Claire C. <strong>Miller <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/21\/upshot\/the-long-term-jobs-killer-is-not-china-its-automation.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fclaire-cain-miller&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=undefined&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=17&amp;pgtype=collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Long Term Jobs Killer is not China.\u00a0 It\u2019s Automation<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The New York Times<\/em> &#8211; December 21, 2016)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Claire C. <strong>Miller <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/28\/upshot\/why-are-we-doing-this-to-ourselves-readers-respond-to-the-threat-of-automation.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fclaire-cain-miller&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=undefined&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=search&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Are We Doing This to Ourselves<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The New York Times<\/em> &#8211; December 28, 2016)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Claire C.<strong> Miller <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/03\/upshot\/how-to-prepare-for-an-automated-future.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fclaire-cain-miller&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=undefined&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=search&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Prepare for an Automated Future<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The New York Times<\/em> &#8211; May 3, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Rick <strong>Moran<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/2017\/02\/12\/the-huge-economic-issue-that-washington-isnt-talking-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Huge Economic Issue That Washington Isn\u2019t Talking About<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Pajamas Media<\/em> &#8211; February 12, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Clive <strong>Thompson <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/02\/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Wired<\/em> &#8211; February 8, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Victoria <strong>Turk<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/dont-fear-the-robots-taking-your-job-blame-the-monopolies-behind-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don\u2019t Fear the Robots Taking Your Job, Fear the Monopolies Behind Them<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Motherboard.com<\/em> &#8211; June 19, 2014)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Marcus <strong>Wohlsen<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/08\/when-robots-take-all-the-work-whatll-be-left-for-us-to-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When Robots Take All the Work, What\u2019ll Be Left for Us to Do?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Wired<\/em> &#8211; August 8, 2014) <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">From Prose to Power.\u00a0 And, More Power<\/span>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Franklin <strong>Foer<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/119769\/amazons-monopoly-must-be-broken-radical-plan-tech-giant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Must Be Stopped: It&#8217;s too big.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cannibalizing the economy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time for a radical plan.<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>(<em>The New Republic<\/em> &#8211; October 9, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> George <strong>Packer<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/02\/17\/cheap-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheap Words: Amazon is Good for Customers.\u00a0 But Is It Good for Books?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The New Yorker<\/em> &#8211; February 17 and 24, 2014)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Matt <strong>Stoller<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@matthewstoller\/how-to-break-up-amazon-fe947c15cb61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why We Need to Break Up Amazon\u2026 And How to Do It<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>(<em>Medium.com<\/em> &#8211; October 16, 2014)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <em>Twitter: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\"><em>https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u201cSocial&#8221; Media<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Nicholas <strong>Carr <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=7651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zuckerberg\u2019s World<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Rough Type<\/em> &#8211; February 28, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Nicholas <strong>Carr<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2017\/04\/21\/how-technology-created-global-village-and-put-each-other-throats\/pu7MyoAkdyVComb9aKyu6K\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Tec<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/ideas\/2017\/04\/21\/how-technology-created-global-village-and-put-each-other-throats\/pu7MyoAkdyVComb9aKyu6K\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hnology Created A Global Village and Put Us at Each Other\u2019s Throats<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The Boston Globe<\/em> &#8211; April 21, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">David<strong> Foster<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/54905.html\">Mark Zuckerberg as Political and Social Philosopher<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>ChicagoBoyz.net<\/em> &#8211; March 7, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Annalee <strong>Newitz <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/staff\/2017\/02\/op-ed-mark-zuckerbergs-manifesto-is-a-political-trainwreck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Manifesto is a Political Trainwreck<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Arstechnica.com<\/em> &#8211; February 18, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Intelligence Or Wisdom<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Andy <strong>Beckett<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/andybeckett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Accelerationism &#8211; How a Fringe Philosophy Predicted the Future We Live In<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>The Guardian<\/em> &#8211; June 5, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Gregory<strong> Ferenstein <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/disrupters-14950.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Disrupters: Silicon Valley elites\u2019 vision of the future<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>City Journal<\/em> &#8211; Winter, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> E.M.<strong> Oblomov<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/intelligentsia-elegy-15005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intelligentsia Elegy: American Intellectuals are at Odds with the Workings of Democracy<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>City Journal<\/em> &#8211; February 3, 2017)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Paul G. <strong>Raven<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/arcfinity.tumblr.com\/post\/61010620946\/were-reading-up-on-transhumanism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We\u2019re Reading Up on Transhumanism<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Arcfinity.com<\/em> &#8211; 2014)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Andrew <strong>Russell<\/strong> and Lee<strong> Vinsel <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hail the Maintainers: Capitalism Excels at Innovation But is Failing at\u00a0 Maintenance, and For Most Lives It Is Maintenance That Matters More<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> (<em>Aeon.com<\/em> &#8211; April 7, 2016)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">____________________\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">On a hopefully lighter (!) note, this post ends with two illustrations that graced the interior of the April 1966 issue of<em> Galaxy<\/em>, both of which complemented Jack Vance\u2019s remarkable Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella, \u201cThe Last Castle\u201d.\u00a0 They&#8217;re by science-fiction artist Jack Gaughan.\u00a0 They show a Phane and a Mek.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">To learn more, you can read about &#8220;The Last Castle&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowedandcreased.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/17\/the-last-castle-jack-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, &amp; Creased<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">(For more literary illustrations, particularly from the \u201cGolden Age\u201d of science-fiction, you might want to visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsenvisioned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/wordsenvisioned.com\/<\/a>.) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>[Shameless plug.]<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Notes<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">(1) From Wikipedia:\u00a0 New York City\u2019s Transport Workers Union, and, Amalgamated Transit Union, called a strike against the city\u2019s Transit Authority on January 1.\u00a0 The strike was resolved by the 13th, through a package comprising, \u201cwages increases from $3.18 to $4.14 an hour, an additional paid holiday, increased pension benefits, and other gains.\u201d\u00a0 The strike also resulted in the passage of the Taylor Law, which defined, \u201crights and limitations of unions for public employees in New York.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> (2) Also known as \u201cISI\u201d; later \u201cThomson-ISI\u201d, then the Intellectual Property &amp; Science business of Thomson Reuters; now \u201cClarivate Analytics\u201d.\u00a0 The title of the enterprise\u2019s next iteration &#8211; should one occur &#8211; is unknown. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">New York City 1966 Transit Strike, at<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1966_New_York_City_transit_strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1966_New_York_City_transit_strike<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> Frederick Pohl (biography), at:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederik_Pohl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederik_Pohl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> \u201cThe Last Castle\u201d (by Jack Vance), at:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Castle_(novella)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Castle_(novella)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>PHANE<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-23-Blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2324 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-23-Blog-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-23-Blog-679x1024.jpg 679w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-23-Blog-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-23-Blog-768x1158.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-23-Blog-1200x1810.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-23-Blog.jpg 1724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">____________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>MEK<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-41-Blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2323 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-41-Blog-407x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-41-Blog-407x1024.jpg 407w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-41-Blog-119x300.jpg 119w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-41-Blog-768x1933.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thepastpresented.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Galaxy-Science-Fiction-1966-04-p-41-Blog.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over five decades ago, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Frederick Pohl wrote an editorial entitled &#8220;Where the Jobs Go&#8221;, which appeared in the April, 1966 edition of of Galaxy Science Fiction.\u00a0 The impetus for his essay was the New York City Transit Strike of January, 1966 (1).\u00a0 That event created an intellectual springboard for &hellip; 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