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Last week The METISfiles presented the results of their Dutch Digital Economy study for Dutch parliament policy makers and assistants at Equinix Am3 Data Center location on the CWI campus in Amsterdam. The study was carried out on behalf of Nederland ICT during the summer of 2017. You can download the slides of the presentation […] Read more »
In our series on the future of work we have touched upon several lines of business where humans are in the process of being replaced by machines. From the 2013 study from Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne called The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization? It became clear that many […] Read more »
Retail Last year the METISfiles reported on the demise of retail shops in city centers. With consumer e-commerce growth reaching 17% in 2016, and total consumer commerce growing 1.7% traditional commerce is up the creeks. It is not that 1.7% growth in consumer commerce is low, on the contrary, it is a healthy number compared […] Read more »
In discussing the advance of robotics we tend to concentrate on machines that carry out a seemingly for ever increasing variety of manual tasks: think of flipping burgers, mowing the lawn, vacuum cleaning, dispensing food, medicines or manufacturing cars, boats, things etc. It is just the beginning. Industrial robots were the first to arrive and […] Read more »
Clearly we were wrong about why robots are so hot today. We thought that since robots are so superior in terms of speed and precision when it comes to executing routine tasks they are regarded by businesses as excellent replacements for an increasing number of factory and desk jobs. As of late they can also […] Read more »
In earlier posts, here , here and here, we commented on the rise of the machines in our society and wondered whether automated jobs would create new and more challenging jobs for men. Automation is a one way street; there is no such thing as de-automation. That is usually a good thing because most automated […] Read more »