Last month, we heard both Elon Musk and Bill Gates voice concerns over the pace of change within many sections of the labour market, with robots and automation making vast swathes of the workforce redundant. Driverless cars are putting taxi drivers, school bus drivers (accounting for over 660,000 US employees), and truck drivers, which provide work for approximately one million people in the US, at risk.
The concept is not new – the luddite movement in the nineteenth century lasted over five years but it is the speed of change that is surprising many. Over a century ago in the […]
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