Rewriting the future of work

Rewriting the future of work

Technology. Job applicants during a written interview recently. Fully automated jobs could render many people jobless. File photo Much has been written about the “future of work,” and much of it makes for gloomy reading. Study after study predicts that automation will upend entire industries and leave millions unemployed. A 2013 paper by two Oxford professors even suggested that machines could replace 47 per cent of jobs in the United States within “a decade or two.”

Conclusions like these sustain the narrative that the future will inevitably be jobless. And yet this view is favoured primarily by the corporate sector […]

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