1965
âIf America can adjust to this change, it will indeed become a place where livinâ is easy,â Newsweek said of automationâs promise, predicting an era of âspace-age gadgetryââfrom âportable translatorsâ to home computer systems that would let people shop, bank and pay bills without leaving home. Today, those once-futuristic ideas have materialized through innovations like internet and the iPhone, which debuted in 2007. According to Pew Research, 91 percent of Americans now own a smartphoneâplacing a camera, GPS, digital wallet and even translation software on a single, readily available portable device.
1975
âItâs the blue-collar workers who are bearing the brunt of the slump,â Newsweek wrote, citing a 16 percent unemployment rate in construction. With nearly 300,000 tech sector layoffs since January 2024, blue-collar work has proved more resilient;âŠ
