Men such as IBM Economist Joseph Froomkin feel that automation
will eventually bring about a 20-hour work week, perhaps within a
century, thus creating a mass leisure class. Some of the more radical
prophets foresee the time when as little as 2% of the work force will
be employed, warn that the whole concept of people as producers
of goods and services will become obsolete as automation advances. [April 1965 Time magazine]
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