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From the Ted Talk by Martin Ford: How we'll earn money in a future without jobs

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But here's the really critical thing to understand. The machines that will threaten workers in the future are really nothing like those cars and trucks and tractors that displaced horses. The future is going to be full of thinking, learning, adapting ________. And what that really means is that technology is _______ beginning to encroach on that fundamental _____ capability — the thing that makes us so different from horses, and the very thing that, so far, has allowed us to stay ahead of the march of progress and ______ relevant, and, in fact, _____________ to the _______. So what is it that is really so different about today's information technology relative to what we've seen in the past? I would point to three fundamental things.

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  1. remain
  2. machines
  3. human
  4. indispensable
  5. finally
  6. economy

Original Text


But here's the really critical thing to understand. The machines that will threaten workers in the future are really nothing like those cars and trucks and tractors that displaced horses. The future is going to be full of thinking, learning, adapting machines. And what that really means is that technology is finally beginning to encroach on that fundamental human capability — the thing that makes us so different from horses, and the very thing that, so far, has allowed us to stay ahead of the march of progress and remain relevant, and, in fact, indispensable to the economy. So what is it that is really so different about today's information technology relative to what we've seen in the past? I would point to three fundamental things.

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