Within the fourth of this six-part collection of The Economics Present, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman ask if advances in synthetic intelligence will reshape the working world as we all know it. Or are we listening to an outdated acquainted story that has been informed many instances earlier than?
Paul Krugman’s Cultural Coda
Loretta Lynn – “Coal Miner’s Daughter”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eHp7JJgq8&record=RDf9eHp7JJgq8&start_radio=1
Martin Wolf’s Cultural Coda:
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, revealed in 1924.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain
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