Analysts warn that automation is now affecting mental labour as well as physical. So what tasks are vulnerable? The awe that robots will kill jobs and leave a considerable mass of people languishing in unemployment is nearly as old as automation itself. And yet,from the Luddites onwards, the fears have been eventually proved wrong, and the economy has ended up stronger than before. Related: Robots threaten low-paid jobs,says Bank of England's chief economist Related: Will robots create more jobs than they kill? Related: The journalists who never sleep Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com