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The Age of Automation by Sir Leon Bagrit Chairman of Elliott-Automation Ltd.
5: Some Industrial and Economic Consequences
The development of automation coincides with an urgent and growing demand for more goods and services to meet the needs of a rapidly increasing world population. The main economic problem of the last quarter of the twentieth century is likely to be one of distribution, rather than of overproduction.
Repeated on Monday at 9.55 (Third)
Next Sunday: New Opportunities for Social Enrichment

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Sir Leon Bagrit
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