The End of Employment

This film is brought to you by the World Technology Network. Job displacement due to automation of ever increasing range of professions - from truck drivers and lawyers, to writers and financial analysts - is likely to be one of the greatest challenges of the next couple of decades. A 2013 Oxford study predicts that up to 47% of jobs could be lost in the United States - nearly twice the unemployment rate of the Great Depression. Why wait till it's too late? Let's talk about this elephant in the room now.