Peak code?

“Will human replacement —the production by ourselves of ever better substitutes for ourselves —deliver an economic utopia with smart machines satisfying our every material need? Or will our self-induced redundancy leave us earning too little to purchase the products our smart machines can make?” In an attempt to answer those questions, three Boston University economists,Seth Benzell, Laurence Kotlikoff, and Guillermo LaGarda, together with Columbia’sJeffrey Sachs, turned to — what else? — a c...