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May 1989. I'm sitting in the final lecture of a required sociology class. Prior to this class, we had been asked to consider what we thought might be the greatest threat facing our population. Of course a bunch of college kids had some simple ideas like war, disease, race conflict, partisan politics, etc. Then the prof gave his opinion - which to me seemed to be even more simple and pretty narrow. It was:
Automation of the American Workforce.
Assuming he's still with us, he's probably celebrating the prescience we all laughed at.
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