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==== White-collar machines ==== {{See also|White-collar worker}} The 21st century has seen a variety of skilled tasks partially taken over by machines, including translation, legal research, and journalism. Care work, entertainment, and other tasks requiring empathy, previously thought safe from automation, have also begun to be performed by robots.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Skidelsky |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky |date=2013-02-19 |title=Rise of the robots: what will the future of work look like? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/feb/19/rise-of-robots-future-of-work |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403203821/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/feb/19/rise-of-robots-future-of-work |archive-date=2019-04-03 |access-date=14 July 2015 |work=The Guardian |location=London, England}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bria |first=Francesca |date=February 2016 |title=The robot economy may already have arrived |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/francesca-bria/robot-economy-full-automation-work-future |access-date=20 May 2016 |publisher=[[openDemocracy]] |archive-date=17 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517215840/https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/francesca-bria/robot-economy-full-automation-work-future |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Srnicek |first=Nick |author-link=Nick Srnicek |date=March 2016 |title=4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time |url=http://wire.novaramedia.com/2015/03/4-reasons-why-technological-unemployment-might-really-be-different-this-time/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625161447/http://wire.novaramedia.com/2015/03/4-reasons-why-technological-unemployment-might-really-be-different-this-time/ |archive-date=25 June 2016 |access-date=20 May 2016 |publisher=novara wire}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brynjolfsson |first1=Erik |title=The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies |last2=McAfee |first2=Andrew |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2014 |isbn=978-0393239355 |chapter=''passim'', see esp Chpt. 9}}</ref>
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