Every succeeding generation has had a new wave of worry, dire warnings that jobs are being threatened. But in each one of these cases, they turned out to be wrong. Take the mechanical looms i just talked about. They were invented in 18 hundred in leon france. Did they end up reducing employment in the textile industry? There no. Two centuries later, leon is the top center for producing textdials. It's the home of the textile and chemical institute, four other institutes, forty labs,. A hundred and forty companies and ten thousand textile jobs. We have 200 years of data showing that. Technology can indeed be disruptive. It can disrupt certain jobs, as mister
Technology might move fast but the fears surrounding it remain ever-present. Back in 2015 Intelligence Squared gathered both tech evangelists and technology naysayers to debate how robots and AI might swallow up jobs in years to come. The speakers included economist, commentator and author George Magnus, internet entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen, technology entrepreneur, presidential advisor and economist Dr Pippa Malmgren, and author and journalist Walter Isaacson. Chairing the debate was journalist and broadcaster Zeinab Badawi.
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