Comments on: Fourth Industrial Revolution: Automation could replace 5 million jobs by 2020 – Interesting Engineering https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2016/01/19/fourth-industrial-revolution-automation-could-replace-5-million-jobs-by-2020-interesting-engineering/ All about electronics and circuit design Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2016/01/19/fourth-industrial-revolution-automation-could-replace-5-million-jobs-by-2020-interesting-engineering/comment-page-1/#comment-1589245 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:01:02 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=38139#comment-1589245 Economist:
OECD working paper: 14% of jobs across 32 developed countries are highly vulnerable to automation and 32% are vulnerable, equaling ~210M jobs in total

A study finds nearly half of jobs are vulnerable to automation
That could free people to pursue more interesting careers
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/04/daily-chart-15

A WAVE of automation anxiety has hit the West. Just try typing “Will machines…” into Google. An algorithm offers to complete the sentence with differing degrees of disquiet: “…take my job?”; “…take all jobs?”; “…replace humans?”; “…take over the world?”

Job-grabbing robots are no longer science fiction. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University used—what else?—a machine-learning algorithm to assess how easily 702 different kinds of job in America could be automated. They concluded that fully 47% could be done by machines “over the next decade or two”.

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