A general view shows the body welding workshop which uses automated welding machine robots that assemble automobile bodies called white body

Is Work, As We Know It, Disappearing?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 23, 2015

For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would replace workers, and work as we know it would disappear. Oxford researchers have forecast that machines might be able to take half of all U.S. jobs within two decades. Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson explores our post-work world in his cover story “A World Without Work.”

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