Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now Part Two | The Brooklyn Rail
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Arithmetically, the problem is a combination of collapsing productivity and insufficient capital investment.
— Financial Times
On February 19, 2017, the New York Times ran a feature story on recent changes in the United States oil industry.2 The focus was on the recent “embrace” of technological innovation in the industry after the 2014 plunge in the global oil market. This was just one of a rash of such pieces in the popular press, relying, as is typical of such writing, on a smattering of skewed, decontextualized data, a healthy serving of the anecdotal, and a host of the worst tech journalism clichés (“a few icons on a computer screen,” “a click of the mouse,” video game marathons as job training, a compulsory reference to drones).
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