The steam engine "ended work". We have spent the ensuing 250 years pretending -- bitterly, ferociously pretending -- that that just didn't happen. That pretence caused all the wars and revolutions of the 19th and 20th Centuries; it killed hundreds of millions and immiserated all the survivors. And here we go again.
The steam engine "ended work". We have spent the ensuing 250 years pretending -- bitterly, ferociously pretending -- that that just didn't happen. That pretence caused all the wars and revolutions of the 19th and 20th Centuries; it killed hundreds of millions and immiserated all the survivors. And here we go again.