Analysts warn that automation is now affecting mental labour as well as physical. So what tasks are vulnerable to the rise of the robots?
The fear that robots will destroy jobs and leave a great mass of people languishing in unemployment is almost as old as automation itself. And yet, from the Luddites onwards, the fears have been eventually proved wrong, and the economy has ended up stronger than before.
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