01/02/13
Marketplace Tech Report for Wednesday, January 2, 2013
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A recent piece by New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called "Robots and Robber Barons" took a look at a question we are familiar with: Are robots eating our jobs? Krugman stops by to share his take on automation, technological change, and the future of the work and wages in America.
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