Fiction book about unemployment nightmare

By Jeff Chiu/The Associated Press

January 24, 2013 | 6:00 a.m. CST

In this Jan. 14 photo, author Martin Ford, 49, poses for a portrait in San Francisco. Ford's book, "The Lights in the Tunnel" describes a nightmare scenario where machines leave 75 percent of American workers unemployed by 2089.

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