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... Amazon Copyright©2009byMartinR.Ford  AllRightsReserved, including the right of reproduction inwholeorinpartinanyform.  Publishedin the UnitedStatesbyAcculant™Publishing.  Library of CongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Ford,MartinR. The Lightsin the Tunnel:Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future /MartinFord p.cm. Include...

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... are growingdark.Nowweseethatmany of the verybrightest lightsin the tunnelfinallyfeel the impact and alsobeginto losetheirlight. The owners of the businessesin the tunnel areseeingmuch of theirwealthgraduallydrainaway. The ... mayhaveactuallyin- creasedforatime,astheywereabletolowertheirprices. Asaresult,theirprofits, and therefore the wealth of th...

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... more popular.Whatwillwedoifsomedayasubstantialpercen- tage of the three and ahalfmillioncashiersin the U.S.no longerhavejobs?Whatadditionaleducation and training canweoffertheseworkers? And whatjobswoulditpre- parethemfor? And what is the impact of thatpotential unemploy- mentonmarketdemandforgoods and services?Cashiers aregenerallynothighly...

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... food—all of these and countless thousands of otherstructures and chemicalsthatcomprise ourbodies and make usfunctionareproteins. And they areallconstructedthroughnanotechnology. Itislikelythat the coming“nanotech”revolutionwill begin ... collating and faxing in- formation. The intellectualportion of the job—eitherap- provingordenying the loan—isprobably...

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... economic growththatChinahasenjoyedinrecentyears. Evidence of thisisclearlyseenin the stallinggrowth that is resulting from the 20 08- 9 recession. As of early 2009,thousands of Chinesefactorieshaveshutdown and millions of workershavelosttheirjobs. The Xinhuanews  ...

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... to decline.Rememberthatwearetalkinghereaboutaverage workers.Toget the graphabove,youmighttake the dis- tribution of incomesin the UnitedStates and thenelimi- nateboth the richest and the poorestpeople.Thengraph the averageincome of the remaining“typical”people (the bulk of consumers) ... whocontrols technology.  And as of the mo- ment,thatcontinuestolar...

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... elimi- nates the jobsthatprovideincometoconsumers. The es- sentialideaisthatweshouldimposesomecombination of aconsumptiontax and/ oraspecialdirecttaxonbusiness thatcaptures the incomewhich,inanon-automatedecon- omy,wouldbepaidoutinwages.Overtime,as the wages paidtoaverageworkersdecrease(asapercentage of reve- nue),thesetaxeswouldbegraduallyi...

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... have strongeducations and training.Thesepeoplearebeneficia- ries of the informationage.On the toxicwastelandside of the fence, are relatively unskilled workers. These people THE LIGHTS IN THE ... dramatically negative.In the UnitedStates,twothirds of workers and thereforeconsumers—donothaveacollegedegree.While effortstoimproveeducation and trainingarel...

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... acentrallyplanned economy,  and perhaps most chillingly, the overthrow of govern- ments and a“dictatorship of the proletariat.”In the wake of the collapse of communism, these ideas ... Amazon  49 Blinder,AlanS.,“IsGovernmenttooPolitical?”ForeignAffairs,No- vember/December1997.Web: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19971101faessay 381 5/alan-s- blinder/is-gover...

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... has quicklyattracted the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission and mayresultinnewregulation. Astheseexamplesshow,wecanexpectthat the rate of change and the volatility of nearlyeverythingaroundus will ... more popular.Whatwillwedoifsomedayasubstantialpercen- tage of the three and ahalfmillioncashiersin the U.S.no longerhavejobs?Whataddition...

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