Sixth: The Age of Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Innovation Revolutions
Sixth: The Age of Robotics and Thinking Machines
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"Software is eating the world"
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Robots | Intelligent Machines
Matt Herring
Ludwig Siegele | The Economist
Cheap and ubiquitous building blocks for digital products and services have caused an explosion in start-ups. Here's why it matters.
The world of start-ups today offers a preview of how large swathes of the economy will be organised tomorrow.
The prevailing model will be platforms with small, innovative firms operating on top of them.
Squeezing out the middle class could generate antagonistic, unstable and potentially dangerous politics.
Satochi Kambayashi
The Economist
Previous technological innovation has always delivered more long-run employment, not less. But things can change
A new wave of technological progress may dramatically accelerate the automation of brain-work.
Society may find itself sorely tested if, as seems possible, growth and innovation deliver handsome gains to the skilled, while the rest cling to dwindling employment opportunities at stagnant wages.
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