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Volume 94, Number 4

hi, robot The Robots Are Coming

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H ow Technological Breakthroughs Will Transform Everyday Life Daniela Rus Will Humans Go the Way of Horses? 8 Labor in the Second Machine Age Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee Same as It Ever Was 15 W hy the Techno-optimists Are Wrong Martin Wolf The Coming Robot Dystopia 23 A ll Too Inhuman Illah Reza Nourbakhsh The Next Safety Net 29 S ocial Policy for a Digital Age Nicolas Colin and Bruno Palier

July/August 2015