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Podcast: Computing Britain
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The Job Killer
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:14:49
Publish Date: 2015-11-16 09:59:00
Description: From the earliest days of electronic computers, commentators feared that mass unemployment would result from the efficiencies of computers and automation in the workplace. These fears would resurface over the decades, but came to a head towards the end of the 1970s with the coming of relatively cheap microprocessors. Presented by Hannah Fry Produced by Alex Mansfield.
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