Ove Arup's 1967 speech about progress, computers, and staying human in an age of automation

Skip to the text of the original speech here . In 2018 I moved to Copenhagen for work. It was a period of my life where I was working very hard to build software to make people better at their jobs. Sometimes people were worried the software would lead to them losing their jobs. We would tell them that they had no need to be worried, the software would only replace the boring parts of their jobs,…