Shoppers admiring a fortune-telling robot at Selfridges, London 1934 Hide the batteries, unplug the router, learn to code: if there’s a truth universally acknowledged, it’s that robots are coming for your job. According to this familiar story, our economic future will be one of mass unemployment. Automatons will inevitably take the place of human workers. These robotic employees won’t complain, suffer fatigue, or unionise.
The new robots will be “white collar” predicts Richard Baldwin, author of the recently published Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work. (“Globotics” is a clunky portmanteau of “globalisation” and “robotics”.) Western professionals, no […]
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