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And now today's episode was originally published on January 2nd, 2018 and as advances in AI

has been a major part of the current news landscape, I thought this episode looking at

the future of work that took automation and artificial intelligence into account in

its recommendations would be useful to look back on now.

Sources include ideas from the CBC, the David Pakman show, the Tom Hartman program,

Freakonomics and the Ezra Klein show.

The period we're approaching is being compared to the first industrial revolution in terms

of its disruptive ability that do you think that's an affair to picture?

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

The first industrial revolution was about steam power and it was about machines that essentially

displaced muscles that took over a manual labor.

Now we're having what you might call a cognitive computing revolution where machines are taking

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