Unit 2 Macro: Are Robots Stealing our Jobs?

This is an age-old debate - the extent to which emerging technologies built on robots will replace labour and scale down the number of jobs in previously labour-intensive industries. Are we still several years away from robotics eliminating millions of jobs or will the process arrive far faster than many expect? The Washington Post reports on eight ways that robots are changing labour markets: Click hereClick below for a short interview with the excellent Tom Standage from The Economist who discusses what types of robots we should be looking out for in 2014