IF WE survive, we are going to live in a wantless, workless world. The machines will do the work.— The shift from scarcity to abundance, from “full employment” to full unemployment, was predicted by Lord Keynes in 1930. He then thought the process would take one hundred years. I believe he would now cut the time in half. The rate of technological change has surpassed anything he could have foreseen.—One figure will stand for many : this year the automobile industry produced 210,000 more cars than in 1955 with 162,000 fewer workers.

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