The future of automation

Posted on 14 Feb 2018 by The Manufacturer

How is automation likely to play out over the next 30 years? Professor Duncan McFarlane makes some predictions.

Manual, repetitive, task-based jobs are the most vulnerable to replacement. Many analysts have considered the likely impact of the future of automation on jobs. For example, a report by McKinsey – Where Machines Could Replace Humans and Where they Can’t – suggested that 60% of all occupations could see 30% of…

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