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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: In ‘second machine age’ of robots, it’s time for humans to get creative

Updated: February 13 2014,
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Robotic technology is increasingly infiltrating our everyday world, and as robots become more capable of human labor, people will likely have to develop new skills for new jobs. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to Erik Brynjolfsson and Andy McAfee, who argue in their new book, “The Second Machine Age,” that we are facing a radical new industrial revolution.