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Last summer, as he turned 95, the economist Robert M. Solow sat at home poring over a draft outline of “The Work of the Future,” an MIT report about technology, jobs, and economic growth. Solow has been studying these topics since he returned from fighting in World War II—and won a Nobel Prize in 1987…
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Judging by the record number of people who’ve quit their jobs in the pandemic—the so-called Great Resignation—millions of Americans don’t really like their work. Which doesn’t mean they’re not worried about losing out to robots—there’s an undercurrent of fear that automation is poised to displace human labor anyway. And the…