the year 2000 [see WQ, New Year's 1983, p. 401. He pins part of the blame on industrial robots, whose numbers he expects to grow from a few thousand today to more than 200,000 1990. But other studies peg the total robot population in 1990 at a maximum of 150,000-and a low of 70,000.
Ehrbar adds that the long decline of America's "smokestack" indus- tries now appears to have bottomed out. Between 1950 and 1978, their share of all U.S. employment fell from 34 percent to 24 percent. But...