Technological development typically takes place in incremental strides. Slower pacing in development permits more time to reflect on uses and laws surrounding new applications. The computer revolution, with its recent emphasis on developing artificial intelligence and applying those insights toward automating manual labor, threatens to upend the working relationship between human and machine.The present case study examines one arena of conflict within that larger contest: technological unemployment. There are growing fears that artificial intelligence and its close cousin, automation, will eliminate entire industries that have heretofore required human labor. Just as the Industrial Revolution presented social tensions that required creative responses to smooth that transition, so do the forecasts for the accelerated transition that modern economies now face. The fear of displaced workers raises the question: What are the implications of technology assuming a greater presence in the workforce? Projections range from a worst-case scenario of a superfluous worker and the end of human labor to more optimistic views that it will boost productivity, enhancing the need for a different kind of labor
