Domin: Yes, they will be, Alquist. They will be, Miss Glory. But in ten years’ time Rossum’s Universal Robots will be making so much wheat, so much material, so much of everything that nothing will cost anything. Everyone will be able to just take as much as he needs. Nobody will live in poverty. They won’t have jobs, that’s true, but that’s because there won’t be any jobs to do. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only the things they want to do, they can live their lives just so that they can make themselves perfect.
-R.U.R. by Karel Capek (1920)
*** Sources & Links ***
BOOKS
Working by Studs Terkel
http://goo.gl/ZoAqnr
Science And Technology In World History by James E. McClellan, Harold Dorn
http://goo.gl/LbivH2
Leonardo To The Internet by Thomas J Misa
http://goo.gl/0Vuyyb
ARTICLES
Lice & Clothing
http://goo.gl/S0QMgt
AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs
http://goo.gl/KVT43a
Why Studs Terkels Working World No Longer Exists
http://goo.gl/uLdTqN
If The Robots Steal All Our Jobs Then Wages Will Be Rising At 200% Per Year: What Problem Is That?
http://goo.gl/hSem8Z
Is Work Good Or Bad by Gary Gutting
http://goo.gl/bgHKQn
A World Without Work by Derek Thompson
http://goo.gl/0TC9ss
The Satire Of The Trades
http://goo.gl/iXoKi8
Luddites
http://goo.gl/Gp6cZD
Court Jesters
http://goo.gl/gM59AO
Sploot Review
http://goo.gl/hzRMkt
The Development and History Of Horticulture
http://www.eolss.net/sample-chapters/…
DATA
The End Of Extreme Poverty by 2030
http://goo.gl/8oQQQS
American Time Use Survey
http://goo.gl/4119G1
USDA Disposable Personal Income Spent On Food
http://goo.gl/4ScBcV
GDP Per Person
http://goo.gl/L0BXMk
Labor Force for Historical Statistics of the United States
http://goo.gl/64eXuj
Retail Prices Of Selected Foods In U.S. Cities 1890-2015
http://goo.gl/jbdxbG
Our World In Data
http://goo.gl/zD9UqC
Consumer Goods And Hours Of Work
https://goo.gl/0uQkpM
Number Of Jobs Held In A Lifetime
http://goo.gl/ETVJYz
BRITISH PATHÉ FOOTAGE
Blacksmith: Edison Kinetoscope 1895
http://goo.gl/FvNTOJ
Horse Drawn Fire Engine
http://goo.gl/ijpsPd
Steel Works Factory
http://goo.gl/mRmPyf
Factory Girls On Strike
http://goo.gl/LNtl4f
Staff Going Into Gate of Varnish Factory 1920-1929
http://goo.gl/uEp0qr
A Century Of Progress – First Locomotive
http://goo.gl/hrtYfq
Weaving 1952
http://goo.gl/5uPw4V
Weaving 1940-1949
http://goo.gl/57YW5E
Women Bakers 1914-1918
http://goo.gl/bAqMNk
Iron Foundry Workers Required 1947
http://goo.gl/wdxatB
Greece – Prior To De Gaulle’s Visit 1963
http://goo.gl/NFB8EU
Skeleton Tailor 1949
http://goo.gl/RfHroY
Gold Beaters 1952
http://goo.gl/nFCtML
Electric Car In 1940
http://goo.gl/lKzTvA
Gentle Giant Aka Robot 1958
http://goo.gl/ABJIXV
Brave Fire Fighters 1918
http://goo.gl/CIXUPw
Down And Outs 1950-1959
http://goo.gl/yPrSwC
A Day In The Life Od Hungarian Fashion Model 1965
http://goo.gl/M7PXxu
Guard Shoemaker 1943
http://goo.gl/c8tuRo
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE
Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S…
THANKS TO EXPERT ADVISORS
Thanks To British Pathé
Steven Horwitz
http://fee.org/search/?q=Steven%20Hor…
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Paintings by Giovanni Caselli
http://goo.gl/TK5PJr
Vsauce2 Links
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Production Assistant Michael Watson
Tweets by MichaelDWatson1
VFX by Eric Langlay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbXV…
Additional Animation by Lulu Jiang
http://www.lulujiang.com/
Sound Design/Mix by Jay Pellizzi
http://jaypellizzi.com/
Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media
Music by Jake Chudnow
https://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow