{"id":9920,"date":"2014-01-20T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:10:51","slug":"the-future-of-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-future-of-jobs","title":{"rendered":"The future of jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>IN 1930, when the world was \u201csuffering\u2026from a bad attack of economic pessimism\u201d, John Maynard Keynes wrote a broadly optimistic essay, \u201cEconomic Possibilities for our Grandchildren\u201d. It imagined a middle way between revolution and stagnation that would leave the said grandchildren a great deal richer than their grandparents. But the path was not without dangers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the worries Keynes admitted was a \u201cnew disease\u201d: \u201ctechnological unemployment\u2026due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour.\u201d His readers might not have heard of the problem, he suggested\u2014but they were certain to hear a lot more about it in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/briefing\/21594264-previous-technological-innovation-has-always-delivered-more-long-run-employment-not-less\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist IN 1930, when the world was \u201csuffering\u2026from a bad attack of economic pessimism\u201d, John Maynard Keynes wrote a broadly optimistic essay, \u201cEconomic Possibilities for our Grandchildren\u201d. It imagined a middle way between revolution and stagnation that would leave the said grandchildren a great deal richer than their grandparents. But the path was not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1470,39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-economics","category-human-trajectories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65058,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions\/65058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}