Many unprepared for the automated world to come

Many unprepared for the automated world to come

(Photo: Courtesy photo) My friend Kelly has long claimed that we have this whole unemployment thing backward. Instead of 100 percent employment, our goal should be 100 percent unemployment. Let the robots do all the work.

Ready or not, here it comes.

As I was researching the Labor Day editorial that will run tomorrow, I came across a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute that claims current technology exists to replace 49 percent of human workers with automation. And it’s not just on the assembly line. The McKinsey study identified 70 professions in which at least 90 percent of the […]

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