The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has outlined the serious failings of government to adopt the fruits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution as swiftly as its neighbours, urging it to reinforce STEM subjects at universities so industry leaders have a fighting chance to take the reins with service robotics and AI in the future.
Upbraiding an “increasingly narrow” school curriculum that should be preparing people for jobs of the future that are “yet to exist”, the report begins by immediately pressing the “crucial” matter of education and lifelong learning in the tech sector. Greater opportunity for co-operative ownership models of new technologies, processes and robots where workers benefit is also…
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