The cities of the future might be dominated by robots – but the blueprint must be laid down by humans today

The cities of the future might be dominated by robots – but the blueprint must be laid down by humans today

Humanoid robots being mass-produced in Turkey / Reuters Fifty per cent is a big number. As part of the World Government Summit, the management consultancy McKinsey and Company estimated that nearly half of the existing jobs in the Middle East – nearly 21 million full-time employees – could be automated within 12 years.

The McKinsey report focused on six countries, five GCC countries and Egypt but if accurate, the level of disruption could be enormous and would be replicated, to different degrees, across the Arab world. That level of change will present difficult policy challenges. And yet, while some of […]

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