Will Robots Make Us More Human?

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