Authors:

  • Debora Spar

Excerpt

March 2, 2021, Audio: "The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century paved the way for large-scale mechanization that the world had never seen before.  For the first time, we had steam engines, factories and mass production — a departure from the largely agrarian society of the previous centuries.  But how exactly do periods of great technological innovation shape the nature of human interaction?  This question, among others, is the subject of a new book by Harvard professor Debora Spar titled Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny."

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