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I'm sure someone else picked up on this... "New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures -- from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-contro
by josscrowcroft 15y ago
I'm sure someone else picked up on this...
"New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures -- from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete."
I wasn't aware that "Google-controlled self-driving automobiles" was rendering taxicab drivers obsolete any time in the near future... call me a luddite, but we've probably got several decades of legal and social hurdles before that even approaches being a reality.
- parsnips 15y agoOr that toll booth collectors were a vast segment of our economy... These sort of articles by this sort of author indicate, if anything, that our economy is robust enough to produce such inane nonsense.