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Toward a Better Society

In: The Future of Work

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  • Richard Donkin

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If the previous chapter seemed fanciful, I should point out that I am not predicting the end of work in the way that was envisaged by Jeremy Rifkin in his book of the same name. Rifkin’s analysis of a third industrial revolution was sound in many respects, but his assumption that machines would increasingly replace labor in future is flawed. Machines create labor. Our knowledge machines—computers—create more knowledge, more analysis, more debate and more mashing and slicing of what we know. But we can’t see it all, not even with the sifting skills of the search engine. Today we have unknown knowns—things we know but don’t know we know, just to add another facet to Donald Rumsfeld’s abstruse explanation of US military thinking in Iraq.1

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  • Richard Donkin, 2010. "Toward a Better Society," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Future of Work, chapter 0, pages 237-253, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27419-8_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230274198_14
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