赏析：If robots don’t take all the jobs A different dystopia: July 2030

一看到《经济学人》里有个系列The world if，我就喜欢上了。根据小组赏析的长短，我选了这篇文章。内容比较贴近我们生活，读起来会比较轻松，不需要补充太多的背景。
这篇有点小科幻型的文章，时间定位到2030年。 如果机器人没接手所有的工作，2030年7月将出现别样的反乌托邦社会。
第一段是对标题的扩充，回忆起种种因机器人引发的警告，回到2030，却非如此。
第二段来阐述担心机器人给人类造成不良影响的原因。
第三、四段讲造成机器人缺乏的原因。AI发展没有想象中的那么快、那么好。
第五到八段开始举极端例子：英国
第九、十段继续举例子：其他国家
第十一段总结，呼应标题

标题

If robots don’t take all the jobs
A different dystopia: July 2030
标题： 如果机器人不能担任起工作，2030年7月将是另一个反乌托邦社会。
我们现在流行的想法是机器人将取代我们人类多数工作的危险论。The world if 系列的这篇文章说标题是If robots don't take all the jobs出现的different的反乌托邦社会。

副标题

The real danger to future prosperity could be too few robots, not too many. An imagined scenario from 2030
副标题： 进一步说明了标题：危险到将来繁荣的不是太多的机器人，而是太少的。 并指出了这篇是2030写的文章。

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图： 机器人一脚踩在没扫掉的香蕉皮上。这可能喻示着机器人没那么强大。
​Print edition | The World If Jul 6th 2019

第一段

1It is hard to believe now, but a little more than a decade ago people were seriously worried about robots taking all the jobs. Back in 2018 the chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, gave a warning that “large swathes” of the population would become “technologically unemployed”. He argued that the “fourth industrial revolution” of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) would create even more disruption to people’s working lives than the previous three. Robots would do everything. There would be universal leisure but mass unemployment. Similar warnings were a fixture at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. Bestselling books predicted dystopian outcomes in which society split into a wealthy, robot-owning plutocracy and an unemployed underclass, and repressive governments would be needed to rein in social discontent. But robots did not take all the jobs—and today, in 2030, much of the world faces the opposite problem as populations age and workforces shrink. What happened to the supposedly inexorable march of the machines?

段落分析

首一句及尾二句响应，中间举例说明个个警告。首句讲10年前的人们"robots taking all the jobs"而引发种种担忧及警告：一个warning，接着又一个warning，然后predicted dystopian，层层递进。这中间有重复又不一致。文中用了“gave a warning that", "similar warning were ..."，接着给出了乌托邦预测，点题a dystopia：阶级分化严重，需要政府来遏制社会不满情绪。"But robots did not take all the jobs"转折引发出2030面临的问题。

句子分析

• rein in sth/sb 或 rein sth/sb in
  to limit or to control sth/sb，限制或控制某东西或某人。从小将小孩管束好，以免他们走错路。
  He focus on reining his children in to stop them go astray.
• the inexorable march of
  march原义表示“行进”“行程”，这里用到它的引申义，表示“前行”“进展”。
  所以这个短语表示：不可阻挡的XXX发展。
  据称的不可阻挡的新世界纪录可能碰到了停滞。
  The supposedly inexorable march of new world records may be coming to a halt.