The robots are coming, but older workers have less to fear than they might think | Torsten Bell

Lessons from history show that technological change doesn’t affect employment in the way some people believe

We need to talk about economic change – how fast it’s happening and what it looks like when it does. Everyone says technology means economic change is accelerating, and that when the robots arrive the result is current, largely older, workers losing their jobs.

That kind of change can happen, especially if driven by more than technology. The speed, and geographical concentration, of …

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