'The End of Work' isn't new: Rifkin published the same fear in 1995
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-12
Part 9 of the automation-fears thread: as computers expanded and digital automation swept new terrain, 'end of work' worries already flourished — Jeremy Rifkin published The End of Work in 1995, foreshadowing today's AI job-displacement anxieties.
Related event: From Looms to AI: A Centuries-Old History of Automation Anxiety(6 posts)→
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