There should be some great content over the next few days covering the conference in Davos... the 4 main themes are laid out in this FT article. The most ineteresting of which is Automation and what it means for the future of the traditional workforce.
Technological innovations are already nibbling away at the structure of our economies. Crowdsourced cab drivers and odd-jobbers using platforms such as Uber and TaskRabbit work without the usual protections companies traditionally give employees, such as healthcare and unemployment benefits in the US. Increasing numbers of humans may disappear from the workplace with the arrival of mass automation. Google is looking for an auto industry partner to build its first driverless car, while Toyota expects its own model to be navigating highways by 2020. Economists speculate over what kinds of workers are most likely to be laid off, and what this means for income and gender equality. Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne at the University of Oxford estimate that about 45 per cent of jobs in the US are susceptible to automation.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ef24be04-be8d-11e5-9fdb-87b8d15baec2.html#axzz3xmS5Jjqn
