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            <h2><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_name">This time, we are the horses: the disruption of labor by humanoid robots</span></h2><p>  <span>6 May 2024</span>
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  </div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><<a href="https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/rethinkx/the-disruption-of-labour-by-humanoid-robots" target="_blank">https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/rethinkx/the-disruption-of-labour-by-humanoid-robots</a>></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Quotes:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><span>In
 the fifteen years between 1907 and 1922, horses went from providing 95%
 of all private vehicle-miles traveled on American roads, to less than 
20%.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><span style="background-color:transparent">Now, we are on the cusp of a new disruption: physical labor performed by humanoid-form robots. Except this time, </span><i style="background-color:transparent">we</i><span style="background-color:transparent"> are the horses.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body">Over the next 15-20 years, h<span>umanoid robots</span>
 will disrupt human labor throughout hundreds of industries across every
 major sector of the global economy. The disruption of labor will be 
among the most profound transformations in human history, and therefore 
simultaneously represents one of the greatest opportunities and greatest
 challenges our civilization has ever faced.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body">----------------------</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body">BillK<br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span id="m_-6958857312646625209gmail-hs_cos_wrapper_post_body"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div>