With automation poised to put millions out of work, economists debate if growth can create enough new ones.
Since the 1970s, automation has eliminated the jobs of millions of bank tellers, retail cashiers, travel agents, airline front-desk workers and manufacturing employees. With the jobs of truck drivers, airline pilots and even medical doctors now at risk as well, it sometimes feels as if every human job except those of computer coders is destined to disappear. Compass examines the jobs at risk and the forces at work. Gantry cranes load containers onto automated guided vehicles (AGV) during the testing […]
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