The Technology Trap: Politics, History, and the Future of Work

This text provides a profound analysis of Carl Benedikt Frey's ideas, which shed new light on the relationship between technological progress and social stability. The author explains that the technological trap is not merely an engineering issue but, above all, a political mechanism. Through the lens of historical phenomena such as Engels' Pause and the Great Leveling, the article demonstrates how technology replacing labor influences market polarization and the erosion of the middle class. The paradoxes of Polanyi and Moravec help us understand the limits of artificial intelligence in the context of tacit knowledge. The overall work provides a comprehensive perspective on the future of work, warning of the social costs of rapid automation and pointing to the need for political management of technological change to avoid repeating past mistakes.