Automation would have eased some Covid economic pain, but the world isn’t prepared

Automation would have eased some Covid economic pain, but the world isn’t prepared

An employee fits a wheel in a car factory | Representational image | Photo: Udit Kulshrestha | Bloomberg The coronavirus outbreak is proving to be the largest disruption to human life we’ve experienced in a long while. It has created a global sense of existential fragility and an unsettlingly invidious insecurity. It has also forced adaptation to a previously unimaginable extent.

It’s not as if we hadn’t been constantly made aware of our broken world order and the need to prepare for adaptation by the scientific and policy community before, but the adaptation was always meant to be gradual and […]

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