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Global Business: Race Against the Machine

30/03/2013

Race Against the Machine

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Peter Day goes to MIT to discuss what the rise of the robots will mean to all of our lives

Peter Day talks with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of MIT about their thought provoking book Race Against the Machine and what the rise of robots will mean to us all.

Peter Day is on campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston to talk with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee about their thought provoking book Race Against the Machine and what the rise of the robots will mean to us all.  Ever advancing automation is affecting both productivity and GDP growth in America and changing the types of jobs most many people will have available to them in the future.  Does the availability of so much new technology represent a threat or an opportunity?

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