Will robots soon be replacing humans across broad swaths of the labour market? Judging by headlines touting driverless cars, machine learning, and the rapidly-growing digital economy, one is tempted to answer “Yes.”
No one can doubt the sweeping effects of new technologies. Historically, tens of millions of jobs have been eliminated by successive waves of technology-enabled innovation in industries ranging from agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing, to electricity and information and telecommunications services.
