When Will Robots Take Your Job?

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 27, 2015

Martin Ford, founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm and the author of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, writes that as technology advances rapidly and machines grow more self-sufficient, fewer jobs will be necessary. Would you like to know if your job will be done by a machine? Check out NPR's Planet Money site to find out.

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