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ovement of goods is largely automated, as are many services. What’s left for humans to do? In 1930—long before the advent of computers, let alone AI—John Maynard Keynes wrote, in an essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” that as a result of improvements in productivity, society could prod
d roboticist, I don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he told me recently. “T struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these roma
ovement of goods is largely automated, as are many services. What’s left for humans to do? In 1930—long before the advent of computers, let alone AI—John Maynard Keynes wrote, in an essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” that as a result of improvements in productivity, society could prod
d roboticist, I don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he told me recently. “T struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these roma
assical laws of motion and laid the basis for his theory of gravity, both of which form the foundation of much of modern physics. Never- theless, as John Maynard Keynes pointed out: Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the
ut be reminded of another more recent great experi- mental physicist, Robert R. Wilson—who, at age twenty-nine, was head of the Research Division at Los Alamos, which developed the atomic 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atirdd 30 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00285952 Seeing in the Dark 31 bomb during the Manhattan
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