Disruption

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What keeps the President of the World Bank up at night? A report released last December by the McKinsey Global Institute found that roughly half of all jobs are at risk of being automated and that’s just with the technologies we have today. As Rob Nail, one of the leading thinkers about technology, told me recently: “Today is the slowest day of innovation we will experience for the rest of our lifetimes.”

http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/wh...rld-bank-night

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Global growth is good news for the fight to end poverty and boost shared prosperity around the world. But there are a few things we’re seeing that keep me up at night. First, aspirations are rising all over the world. Nearly everywhere I travel, I see people on smartphones - and thanks to the internet and social media, those people can see how everyone else lives. Our research suggests that as people access the internet, their reference income – the income to which they compare their own – begins to grow, leading to rising aspirations. And internet access is booming. At the end of 2015 in Africa, 226 million smartphones were connected to the internet. By 2020, that number will triple to three quarters of a billion. Some studies estimate that by 2025, 8 billion people worldwide will have access to the internet.

http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/wh...rld-bank-night

This is probably a good read


https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/...=2&isAllowed=y

Pity the planet..... :rolleyes:

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