Automation: The biggest wave is yet to hit

From driverless cars to smartphone apps offering instant translation, the evidence of rapid progress in artificial intelligence is now clear to see. Two tech giants, Facebook and Baidu, are spending heavily on artificial intelligence research. We meet the man who was among the first to predict just how disruptive the automation revolution was going to be. Erik's Automation Anxiety When a book called The Second Machine Age was published in 2014, it had a far greater impact than most academic works. But the timing of Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's book about the wave of automation sweeping through the workplace was perfect, as the world woke up to the rapid progress of computing and robotics and grew anxious about it.