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SUMMARY:Richard Baldwin : The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization\, Robotics
  and the Future of Work
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Richard Baldwin\, Professor of International Economics\, Gradu
 ate Institute\, Geneva\nConference held in english.\n\nOnce again\, trade 
 and technology are reshaping the world of work. They shifted workers from 
 farms to factories in the 19th century and from factories to offices in th
 e 20th century. Now\, a combination of globalization and robotics (“glob
 otics”) has come for service-sector and professional jobs. Digital techn
 ology has created “white-collar robots” that can do our office work. I
 t has also made possible a new form of globalization—"telemigration”
 —that allows talented\, low-cost workers sitting abroad to work in our o
 ffices without actually being there.\n \nBut will globotics create jobs\,
  or just destroy them? What will the future of our work look like?\n \nRi
 chard Baldwin will give a Campus Lecture at EPFL on 15th May to discuss th
 is question\, which is also the subject of his book\, arguing that globots
  will help us build a better world.\n \nWe will be freed to focus on the 
 jobs that they cannot do\, with the enticing prospect of work without drud
 gery that focuses on our creative\, human skills. There will be stumbles o
 n the path to this more local\, more enlightened workplace\, however. If w
 e give reason for resentful white-collar workers who lose office jobs to s
 ide with disenfranchised blue-collar workers who have already lost factory
  jobs\, their combined anger could destabilize our society. Governments ca
 n avoid this upheaval\, though\, using tools that they already possess to 
 help displaced workers find new jobs\, make the competition from globots s
 eem fairer\, and—if necessary—slow the pace of progress until we can a
 djust to it.\n\n 
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