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I wake up every morning thinking “how can I keep my job from going to the robots?”

Posted on 21Jul04 by jessamyn

I would be happy to see robots in libraries fetching and shelving the books for me, though I think the term “mechanical husher” [see the actual URL name] may not catch on.

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