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Impact of automation on developing countries puts up to 85% of jobs at risk
A new report from Citi and the Oxford Martin School explores the varying impact that automation of jobs will have on countries and cities around the world, in the near future and the coming decades. Technology at Work v2.0: The Future Is Not What It Used to Be builds on 2013 research by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne which found that 47 per cent of US jobs were at risk of automation over the next two decades, and on the first Technology at Work report, published in 2015.
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I see this as a great opportunity for humanity or, even better, our environment. More and more people become available for working on that. I mean, among those people are very creative and bright people. And not inventing new energy sources like nuclear fusion, that's kinda bullshit with an already working reactor outthere, giving us more than we will ever use. And with all the climate changes and the change of weather patterns, more and harder storms, volcanic activity, changing currents in the oceans, more and more places inhabitable because of the heat, you'd say that Mother Nature is pointing out to us what sources are way better than all the bullshit we invent.
But that's none of business, of course.