Richard Baldwin on the “inhumanely fast” next phase of globalization

Baldwin’s new book, The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work, is a natural follow-up to his 2016 book, The Great Convergence. Three years ago, he explained how a third wave of globalization—a collapse in the cost of the movement of people thanks to technology—would be the most disruptive, because it hits workers in the service sector. I was tired of people talking about robots every single day and what they can do but completely missing the idea that the same technology was transforming globalization.

Source: qz.com