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Age of automation entails freedom from most of the common working roles. Signs are changes in employment, unemployment, professional structures, relevance of services, entertainment industry, working hours, and the nature of social relations. Warnings are suggested against voluntaristic interventions, neglect of social, historical relations. New approaches are required in the fields of lifelong education and in the education of socially disadvantaged people. The changes in evolutionary inherited motivations and life styles are critical challenges to mankind. Open society and lessons of system control are recommended.
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It is a revised version of the introductory address at IFAC SWIIS 2012, June 11–13, 2012, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.
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Vámos, T. The human role in the age of information. AI & Soc 29, 277–282 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0481-z
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