We are entering a new phase in world history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
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The new information and telecommunication technologies have the potential to both liberate and destabilize civilization in the coming century. Whether the new technologies free us for a life of increasing leisure or result in massive unemployment and a global depression will depend in large part on how each nation addresses the question of productivity advances.
"The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era"
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