Can’t read a map or add up? Don’t worry, we’ve always let technology do the boring stuff | Martha Gill

We won’t fear the rise of the robots when we realise they’re just another tool to take the tedium out of our lives

The dystopian novels of the last century were mostly filled with terrifying visions of the rise of technology – a genre of which we are still to tire. Charlie Brooker’s hugely successful Black Mirror series in which technology kills, maims or subjects people to terrible fates will have a seventh incarnation this year.

But just for balance, …

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