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“The Rise of the Machines: Why Automation is Different this Time”

In this day and age, I value bodies that can take a lot of information and present it in a comprehensible way. The folks over at Kurzgesagt (German for “in a nutshell”) spent 900 hours and nine months researching the history of automation, then created this video explaining why recent advances in technology are very swiftly leading us towards a crucial crossroads.

The video is well worth the watch, informative, mildly terrifying at points, and I found the bit about the freelancers both chilling and fascinating: