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What Would The World Be Like If Machines Did All The Work?

By David Kestenbaum

Published May 29, 2015 at 4:54 PM EDT

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The economist John Maynard Keynes imagined a future world where people no longer need to work. NPR's Planet Money and the Truth podcasts bring you a work of audio fiction inspired by Keynes' question.

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David Kestenbaum

David Kestenbaum is a correspondent for NPR, covering science, energy issues and, most recently, the global economy for NPR's multimedia project Planet Money. David has been a science correspondent for NPR since 1999. He came to journalism the usual way — by getting a Ph.D. in physics first.

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