Fourth Industrial Revolution

These are the jobs robots can't do

Robots are seen next to a screen showing Meituan's smart retailing management system at the Asian Cuisine Festival, held as a sideline event of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC), in Beijing, China May 21, 2019. Picture taken May 21, 2019. Qin Cansong/Qianlong.com via REUTERS  ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.  NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

Man and machine are likely to work closely together in the near future. Image: REUTERS/China Stringer Network

J. Bradford DeLong
Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
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