Summary: Slowly the outlines of the 3rd industrial revolution becomes clear, and with it the only path to a better future for humanity. If you want to see our future more clearly, this essay by British journalist and novelist John Lanchester might be the most illuminating article you’ll read this year.
That means the role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors. The general theoretical proposition that the worker who loses his job in one industry will necessarily be able to find employment, possibly after appropriate retraining, in some other industry is as invalid as would be the assertion that horses who lost their jobs in transportation and agriculture could necessarily have been put to another economically productive use.
— Wassily…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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