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How Technology Is Destroying Jobs

July 2013

Automation is reducing the need for people in many jobs. Are we facing a future of stagnant income and worsening inequality?

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Letter from the editor

Adapting to Automation

Features

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The World as Free-Fire Zone
How drones made it easy for Americans to kill a particular person anywhere on the planet.
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Repairing Bad Memories
A scientist who has anguished over terrors in her family’s history explores how people might erase the trauma from memories.

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