Read: More robots set to take our jobs

Swiss-based futurist Gerd Leonhard described the widespread changes over the next few decades as “hellven” in a series of speeches in Australia for CA Technologies in August. He told the Financial Review society would get the benefit of cheaper goods and services thanks to technology, but also faced widespread structural unemployment…Leonhard was less bullish about the future, but agreed people would increasingly create their own jobs that relied on imagination or the personal touch. ”It should be about focusing on what we as humans can do, rather than trying to beat the machine,” he said.

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