Race Against the Machine

Peter Day is on campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston to talk with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee about their thought provoking book Race Against the Machine and what the rise of the robots will mean to us all. Ever advancing automation is affecting both productivity and GDP growth in America and changing the types of jobs most many people will have available to them in the future. Does the availability of so much new technology represent a threat or an opportunity?