Will Robots Make Us More Human?

2015-10-23

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Alquist: ...all the workers in the world will be out of a job.

Domin: Yes, they will be, Alquist. They will be, Miss Glory. But in ten years’ time Rossum’s Universal Robots will be making so much wheat, so much material, so much of everything that nothing will cost anything. Everyone will be able to just take as much as he needs. Nobody will live in poverty. They won’t have jobs, that’s true, but that’s because there won’t be any jobs to do. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only the things they want to do, they can live their lives just so that they can make themselves perfect.

-R.U.R. by Karel Capek (1920)

*** Sources & Links ***

BOOKS

Working by Studs Terkel

http://goo.gl/ZoAqnr

Science And Technology In World History by James E. McClellan, Harold Dorn

http://goo.gl/LbivH2

Leonardo To The Internet by Thomas J Misa

http://goo.gl/0Vuyyb

ARTICLES

Lice & Clothing

http://goo.gl/S0QMgt

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

http://goo.gl/KVT43a

Why Studs Terkels Working World No Longer Exists

http://goo.gl/uLdTqN

If The Robots Steal All Our Jobs Then Wages Will Be Rising At 200% Per Year: What Problem Is That?

http://goo.gl/hSem8Z

Is Work Good Or Bad by Gary Gutting

http://goo.gl/bgHKQn

A World Without Work by Derek Thompson

http://goo.gl/0TC9ss

The Satire Of The Trades

http://goo.gl/iXoKi8

Luddites

http://goo.gl/Gp6cZD

Court Jesters

http://goo.gl/gM59AO

Sploot Review

http://goo.gl/hzRMkt

The Development and History Of Horticulture

http://www.eolss.net/sample-chapters/...

DATA

The End Of Extreme Poverty by 2030

http://goo.gl/8oQQQS

American Time Use Survey

http://goo.gl/4119G1

USDA Disposable Personal Income Spent On Food

http://goo.gl/4ScBcV

GDP Per Person

http://goo.gl/L0BXMk

Labor Force for Historical Statistics of the United States

http://goo.gl/64eXuj

Retail Prices Of Selected Foods In U.S. Cities 1890-2015

http://goo.gl/jbdxbG

Our World In Data

http://goo.gl/zD9UqC

Consumer Goods And Hours Of Work

https://goo.gl/0uQkpM

Number Of Jobs Held In A Lifetime

http://goo.gl/ETVJYz

BRITISH PATHÉ FOOTAGE

Blacksmith: Edison Kinetoscope 1895

http://goo.gl/FvNTOJ

Horse Drawn Fire Engine

http://goo.gl/ijpsPd

Steel Works Factory

http://goo.gl/mRmPyf

Factory Girls On Strike

http://goo.gl/LNtl4f

Staff Going Into Gate of Varnish Factory 1920-1929

http://goo.gl/uEp0qr

A Century Of Progress - First Locomotive

http://goo.gl/hrtYfq

Weaving 1952

http://goo.gl/5uPw4V

Weaving 1940-1949

http://goo.gl/57YW5E

Women Bakers 1914-1918

http://goo.gl/bAqMNk

Iron Foundry Workers Required 1947

http://goo.gl/wdxatB

Greece - Prior To De Gaulle’s Visit 1963

http://goo.gl/NFB8EU

Skeleton Tailor 1949

http://goo.gl/RfHroY

Gold Beaters 1952

http://goo.gl/nFCtML

Electric Car In 1940

http://goo.gl/lKzTvA

Gentle Giant Aka Robot 1958

http://goo.gl/ABJIXV

Brave Fire Fighters 1918

http://goo.gl/CIXUPw

Down And Outs 1950-1959

http://goo.gl/yPrSwC

A Day In The Life Od Hungarian Fashion Model 1965

http://goo.gl/M7PXxu

Guard Shoemaker 1943

http://goo.gl/c8tuRo

ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE

Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S...

THANKS TO EXPERT ADVISORS

Thanks To British Pathé

http://www.britishpathe.com/

Steven Horwitz

http://fee.org/search/?q=Steven%20Hor...

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

http://elizabethwaylandbarber.com/

Paintings by Giovanni Caselli

http://goo.gl/TK5PJr

Vsauce2 Links

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceTwo

Website: http://www.vsauce.com

Written, Produced and Hosted by Kevin Lieber

Instagram: http://instagram.com/kevlieber

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinlieber

Website: http://kevinlieber.com

Production Assistant Michael Watson

https://twitter.com/MichaelDWatson1

VFX by Eric Langlay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbXV...

Additional Animation by Lulu Jiang

http://www.lulujiang.com/

Sound Design/Mix by Jay Pellizzi

http://jaypellizzi.com/

Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media

http://koala.fm/

Music by Jake Chudnow

https://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow