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May 16, 2013

Marketplace Tech for Thursday, May 16, 2013

Lately, it seems like we talk about Moore’s law at least once a week on our show. It’s the idea that our computing power jumps forward by leaps and bounds every two years — so fast that soon our computers will be as smart as we are. Kevin Drum is a writer at the magazine Mother Jones. He’s just written a long piece about intelligent robots. Drum thinks by the year 2025, they’ll be smart enough to take almost all of our jobs. Don’t worry though — he says that’s a good thing.

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Lately, it seems like we talk about Moore’s law at least once a week on our show. It’s the idea that our computing power jumps forward by leaps and bounds every two years — so fast that soon our computers will be as smart as we are. Kevin Drum is a writer at the magazine Mother Jones. He’s just written a long piece about intelligent robots. Drum thinks by the year 2025, they’ll be smart enough to take almost all of our jobs. Don’t worry though — he says that’s a good thing.