Richard Glover: Are our jobs on the robotic road to ruin?
Machines, I've always thought, are both amazingly brilliant and often spectacularly dumb.
Richard Glover is the author of 12 books, including the prize-winning memoir “Flesh Wounds”. He presents “Drive” on 702 ABC Sydney and the comedy program “Thank God It’s Friday” on ABC local radio. For more: www.richardglover.com.au
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