The rise of automation presents society with new challenges, warns Keith Hebden
Road ahead: driverless vehicles could remove the livelihoods of thousands TECHNOLOGY both frees and displaces people.
During the Industrial Revolution, mechanisation took over much agricultural and textile work, forcing impoverished people into cities in huge numbers. Today, society faces an even bigger upheaval than that experienced by its steam-powered ancestors: the rise of automation.The professional-services firm PwC predicts that “up to around 30 per cent of existing UK jobs are susceptible to automation from robotics and Artificial Intelligence by the early 2030s”. These jobs will either disappear […]
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