There are two big worries about the economy in public debate. Two big, and contradictory worries. One is that we had better get used to flat-lining productivity, that the 2 percent a year labor productivity growth of the entire post-war period will turn out to have been an aberration. The other is that robots are going to take all the jobs, from driving vehicles to reading legal documents, within the next 20 years.
Diane Coyle