Wired News: How Robots Will Steal Your Job

By Joanna Glasner
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59882,00.html
02:00 AM Aug. 05, 2003 PT

Listening to Marshall Brain explain the future as he sees it, it's relatively easy to suspend disbelief and agree how plausible it is that over the next 40 years most of our jobs will be displaced by robots.
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According to Brain's projections, laid out in an essay, 'Robotic Nation,' humanoid robots will be widely available by the year 2030, and able to replace jobs currently filled by people in areas such as fast-food service, housecleaning and retail. Unless ways are found to compensate for these lost jobs, Brain estimates that more than half of Americans could be unemployed by 2055. "
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