Digital Euphoria Now Over

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*Die Melancholie am Übergang in die nächste industrielle Revolution*

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“I don’t accept the view that this new era is so different from every time in the past. Consider the industrial revolution, which starts in Great Britain in the seventeen-seventies or seventeen-eighties. For a long time, you had rising inequality, fairly stagnant living standards, a lot of problems adjusting. Of course, we did eventually get over it in the longer run, and it was much better for everyone. But it took, arguably, fifty or sixty years for us to make that transition. I think this future wave of inequality, which is already underway, will be a lot like that. It will take us decades to make the transition. Those decades will bring a lot of problems. But I think that in the much longer run it will be much more positive than it will seem during the transition era. I think this period fits quite nicely with historical precedent.”

Soweit der Ökonom Tyler Cowen in einem sehr lesenswerten NY-Gespräch:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/11/when-machines-replace-humans-at-work.html