Recently, I was researching President John F. Kennedy and his relationship with western Pennsylvania. I found his Presidential Library to be a fantastic resource. In their archives, I found transcripts of a few campaign speeches which JFK made in Butler County. He delivered a speech on the steps of the Butler County courthouse, where one of the main topics was the growing spectre of automation. Indeed, in the 1960s, a presidential candidate was simultaneously preparing the nation for an enormous Space Race of technology while dealing with the ramifications of automation versus the ordinary blue-collar workers who would be profoundly affected.