Word: lazzaroni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robotmakers answer. But by whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness. "It's an enormous problem," concedes Luigi Lazzaroni, president of the Italian firm that makes the Pragma robot. "Many will have to learn how to work differently. The schools, the industrial firms and the government must cooperate to ensure that the workers are able to fit the requirements of industry...
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