In 1955, Walter Reuther, head of the US car workers’ union, told of a visit to a new automatically operated Ford plant. Pointing to all the robots, his host asked: “How are you going to collect union dues from those guys?” Mr Reuther replied: “And how are you going to get them to buy Fords?” Automation is not new. Neither is the debate about its effects. How far, then, does what Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee call The Second Machine Age alter the questions or the answers?
1955年，美国汽车工会主席沃尔特•鲁瑟(Walter Reuther)说起自己参观福特(Ford)新开的自动化工厂的经历。招待方指着一排排机器人问他：“你怎么向这些伙计收会费？”鲁瑟答道：“你又怎么让他们买福特汽车？”如今自动化已不是新鲜事物，关于其影响的辩论也由来已久。那么，在埃里克•布林约尔松(Erik Brynjolfsson)和安德鲁•麦卡菲(Andrew McAfee)所说的《第二个机器时代》(The Second Machine Age)里，这一问一答将如何改写呢？
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