Is a Robot Really Going to Take my Job?
Our chair, Di, is speaking at Women of The Square Mile on May 15, 2019, with the session: It appears that automation is increasingly in the headlines for replacing jobs. The World Economic Forum says more than 7 million jobs are at risk from advances in technology in the world’s largest economies over the next […]
Airbus Planes Will Track How Often Passengers Go to the Bathroom
By: Victor Tangermann September 13, 2019 Bathroom Break In the future, airplane bathrooms will never run out of toilet paper again. At least, that’s Airbus’s excuse for a cursed-sounding new Internet of Things platform that collects a large amount of data about passengers, according to Bloomberg — including how often they go to the bathroom […]
How the world will change as computers spread into everyday objects
By: The Economist September 12, 2019 O N AUGUST 29TH, as Hurricane Dorian tracked towards America’s east coast, Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, an electric-car maker, announced that some of his customers in the storm’s path would find that their cars had suddenly developed the ability to drive farther on a single battery charge. […]
Shop closures and self-checkouts cost tens of thousands of women’s jobs
By: Robert Booth September 12, 2019 A surge in shop closures and the growth of automated retail are forcing tens of thousands of women out of work, according to a study of the economic pain caused by high street decline. With twice as much UK shopping now online than in 2011 and amid a wave […]
Technology New tech to help disabled people
By: Laura Potier September 8, 2019 Electrical stimulation Nine years ago, David Mzee was left paralysed by a gymnastics accident and told he would never walk again. Last week, he competed in a charity run during which he walked 390 metres, thanks to an experimental treatment that uses electrical stimulation of the spinal cord to […]
Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of war
By: The Economist September 7, 2019 A S THE NAVY plane swooped low over the jungle, it dropped a bundle of devices into the canopy below. Some were microphones, listening for guerrilla footsteps or truck ignitions. Others were seismic detectors, attuned to minute vibrations in the ground. Strangest of all were the olfactory sensors, sniffing […]
More Robots Mean 120 Million Workers Need to be Retrained
By: Shelly Hagan September 6, 2019 More than 120 million workers globally will need retraining in the next three years due to artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs, according to an IBM survey. That’s a top concern for many employers who say talent shortage is one of the greatest threats to their organizations today. And the […]
Smile-to-pay: Chinese shoppers turn to facial payment technology
By: September 5, 2019 New technology is rolling out across the country, despite concerns over privacy China’s shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods with just a turn of their heads as the country embraces facial payment technology. In a country where mobile payment is already one of the most advanced in the world, customers can make […]
Oxford Report: Technology At Work V2.0
By: Citi GPS January 26, 2016 It is a pleasure to introduce Technology at Work v2.0: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be. This report is the third in a long-term series of Citi GPS reports coproduced by Citi and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford in order to explore […]