Robots have already taken over our work, but they’re made of flesh and bone
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/25/robots-taken-over-work-jobs-economy
Many jobs in the modern economy have been sapped of their humanity. How should we resist the rise of ‘digital Taylorism’ ? Most of the headlines about technology in the workplace relate to robots rendering people unemployed. But what if this threat is distracting us from another of the distorting effects of automation ? To what extent are we being turned into workers that resemble robots ? Take taxi drivers. The prevailing wisdom is they will be replaced by Uber drivers, who in turn will (...)