Remove Finance Remove Osborne Remove Productivity Remove Technology
article thumbnail

How Tax Policy Encourages Firms To Invest In New Technology

The Horizons Tracker

While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all. Complementary investment.

article thumbnail

Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. No wonder employees like them. trillion euros.

article thumbnail

The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.