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And now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups Today from

Ideas from the CBC, The David Pakman Show, The Tom Hartman Program, Freakonomics Radio,

and the As Recline Show.

The period where approaching is being compared to the first industrial revolution in terms

of its disruptive ability, do you think that's an affair depiction?

Sure, that's maybe even in some cases more so.

I mean, the first industrial revolution was about steam power and it was about machines

that essentially displaced muscles.

You know, that took over a manual labor.

Now, we're having what you might call a kind of cognitive computing revolution where machines

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