In the battle for the 21st century workplace, computers are winning. And the odds of us puny humans making a comeback are not very good.
A January 2017 report from the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that roughly half of today’s work activities could be automated by 2055, give or take 20 years. (McKinsey helpfully offers a search portal to find out how likely you’ll be given the boot by a bot.)
Bottom line is robots want our jobs. And no one is going to build a wall around them or tariff them out of existence.In a way this is nothing new. […]
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