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From the Ted Talk by Martin Ford: How we'll earn money in a future without jobs

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This alarm has been raised repeatedly, but it's always been a false alarm. And because it's been a false alarm, it's led to a very conventional way of thinking about this. And that says essentially that yes, technology may dsaevatte ertnie industries. It may wipe out whole occupations and tyeps of work. But at the same time, of course, progress is going to lead to entirely new things. So there will be new industries that will arise in the future, and those isruntdies, of course, will have to hire people. There'll be new kinds of work that will appear, and those might be things that today we can't really even imagine. And that has been the srtoy so far, and it's been a positive story.

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This alarm has been raised repeatedly, but it's always been a false alarm. And because it's been a false alarm, it's led to a very conventional way of thinking about this. And that says essentially that yes, technology may _________ ______ industries. It may wipe out whole occupations and _____ of work. But at the same time, of course, progress is going to lead to entirely new things. So there will be new industries that will arise in the future, and those __________, of course, will have to hire people. There'll be new kinds of work that will appear, and those might be things that today we can't really even imagine. And that has been the _____ so far, and it's been a positive story.

Solution

  1. story
  2. industries
  3. types
  4. devastate
  5. entire

Original Text

This alarm has been raised repeatedly, but it's always been a false alarm. And because it's been a false alarm, it's led to a very conventional way of thinking about this. And that says essentially that yes, technology may devastate entire industries. It may wipe out whole occupations and types of work. But at the same time, of course, progress is going to lead to entirely new things. So there will be new industries that will arise in the future, and those industries, of course, will have to hire people. There'll be new kinds of work that will appear, and those might be things that today we can't really even imagine. And that has been the story so far, and it's been a positive story.

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