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THE late President Kennedy has said that ‘it is necessary to face all the implications of a highly complex and constantly evolving technology. This means accepting scientific and technological progress as beneficial to the entire human community’. He also noted that it is necessary ‘to make automation the servant, rather than the master of the American people’.I
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Neuloh, O. (1966). A New Definition of Work and Leisure Under Advanced Technology. In: Stieber, J. (eds) Employment Problems of Automation and Advanced Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00444-7_13
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