Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive
As The Wall Street Journal reports “Jeff Bezos is in early talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and seek to use AI technology to accelerate their path to automation,” which would likely trigger an avalanche of mass unemployment, and right on cue The Actors’ Gang is reviving Elmer Rice’s all-too-timely The Adding Machine. Rice’s 1923 expressionistic classic lampooning automation is prophetic in its dramatization of the struggle of man (and woman!) against machines. Read more…