The Robots Are Coming!: The Way forward for Jobs within the Age of Automation

The Robots Are Coming! facilities across the challenge of jobs and their future within the context of fast automation and the expansion of on-line services and products. As two of Oppenheimer’s interviewees — each specialists in know-how and economics from Oxford College — point out, forty-seven p.c of current jobs are prone to changing into automated or rendered out of date by different technological adjustments within the subsequent twenty years. Oppenheimer examines present adjustments in a number of fields, together with the meals enterprise, authorized work, banking, and drugs, talking with specialists within the subject, and citing articles and literature on automation in numerous areas of the workforce. He contrasts the views of “techno-optimists” with these of “techno-negativists” and customarily makes an attempt to discover a center floor between an alarmist imaginative and prescient of the longer term, and one that’s too uncritical. A self-described “cautious optimist”, Oppenheimer believes that know-how won’t create huge unemployment, however slightly will drastically change what work appears like.