The glee of using terms like ‘disruption’, ‘digital transformation’ and ‘industrial revolution’ to provide optimistic forecasts of technology’s wonderful impact must be tempered with the reality that they can cause job displacement and human misery through unemployment. There’s an unseen force silently stalking employees and killing off their jobs. And we need to act urgently, or we’ll face the wrath of a disenfranchised workforce desperately running from the threat of unemployment.
Automation, robotics, IoT, artificial intelligence all form part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, often used as a war cry for progress and political gain, but, like every industrial revolution […]
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