Despite Albert Einstein’s fears that technology would create a “generation of idiots”, automation has improved quality of life for most people and created a wealth of new and more skilled industrial positions.
Here Jonathan Wilkins, of obsolete industrial parts supplier, EU Automation discusses the new job roles that automation is bringing to engineering and manufacturing. Automaton created 3.5 million jobs between 2001 and 2008, allowing many workers to move into higher skilled positions. Since 2008 in the UK alone, 800,000 jobs have reportedly been lost to…
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