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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Feeling vulnerable.

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What British, European, and American Policymakers Need to Do Now

Harvard Business Review

News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. There doesn’t seem to be any such panic right now, despite the very large turbulence in the exchange rate in the financial market.

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

Harvard Business Review

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 The score assigned to this component is an aggregate of scores earned by different clusters of inclusion-related indicators; the clusters that make up inclusivity are labor market inclusion, economic mobility, diversity and acceptance, and policies that promote inclusion.