How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Machine

A robot looks at visitors at the Soft Bank robotics stand at the Cebit technology fair in Hannover on March 20, 2017. The Digital Business fair CEBIT in Hanover with Japan as partner country runs from March 20 until March 24. I've written a number of times about the impact automation will have on both the wider world and on the way we work, and am broadly speaking optimistic about the role new technologies will play in the labor market. Indeed, a recent paper highlighted the minimal impact technology has had on the amount of jobs created in recent economic recoveries. Of course, this doesn't stop a great many articles emerging in the past few months highlighting the huge (negative) impact automation will have.