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The Job Killer
Episode 5 of 12
Hannah Fry explores the pervasive fear that the computer would lead to mass unemployment.
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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Fri 18 Sep 2015
13:45
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Computing Britain
Hannah Fry reveals the UK's lead role in developing computer technologies we rely on today
