--- title: Worth Reading: Automation Report From 1958 « ipSpace.net... description: A short reflection on fears about automation displacing jobs, drawing parallels between network automation today, the Luddite movement of the 19th century, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-automation-report-from-1958-ipspace-net-blog-wudzo8vvg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Worth Reading: Automation Report From 1958 « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev og:description: A short reflection on fears about automation displacing jobs, drawing parallels between network automation today, the Luddite movement of the 19th century, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/worth-reading-automation-report-from-1958-ipspace-net-blog-wudzo8vvg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wUdzO8vVg.png og:image:alt: Worth Reading: Automation Report From 1958 « ipSpace.net blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Worth Reading: Automation Report From 1958 « ipSpace.net blog **[ipSpace.net Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short reflection on fears about automation displacing jobs, drawing parallels between network automation today, the Luddite movement of the 19th century, and a 1958 report on clerical workers facing early computers. Historical US unemployment data suggests automation has had little lasting impact on overall employment, though the author notes the real question is whether displaced workers move to better or worse opportunities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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