Labor Productivity Archives - HumanProgress

The “Automation Revolution” That Wasn't?

The Pandemic is Ushering in a Work-from-Home Revolution

How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?

Norberg: Should Recent Reports Make Us Fear Automation?

January 02, 2020

New Google AI Project “Gamifies” Memory

December 09, 2019

Don't Count on a “Tech-Driven” Employment Apocalypse

November 06, 2019

Why the Middle Class Is Better Off Than You Think

November 01, 2019

Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Jobs – and Create Them

October 30, 2019

How Work Got Good: Safer, More Interesting, More Intense

October 17, 2019

What Ma and Keynes Get Wrong About Progress

September 10, 2019

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 23: Willis Haviland Carrier

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 17: Malcom McLean

AI Could Make Knowledge Workers More Effective

The Ever-Changing Nature of Work

January 28, 2019

Market Has Achieved What Marx Wanted – Less Labor

Icelanders Turn $12 Cod into $3,500 Worth of Products

Markets Are as Old as Civilization

Seven Jobs Robots Will Create or Expand

Robots Can Now Assemble Ikea Furniture

Introducing the New and Improved HumanProgress.org

Automating Dull Tasks Lets Workers Do More Interesting Work

History's Unfounded Fears Over the Future of Work

U.S. Filings for Unemployment Benefits Lowest Since 1973

January 19, 2018

Why We Shouldn't Obsess Over Economic Inequality

January 10, 2018