Science, Maths & Technology
Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
...changes underfoot,” Melissa Leach, director of IDS, told the meeting. “The stakes in this, I must emphasise, couldn’t be higher.” Mass unemployment is one; loss of revenue for governments is another; and then there's the disproportionate effect on women workers. Amongst the worried development crowd was a sprinkling of more optimistic technologists and government...