Will having a job be a luxury? 2025 might be the year you see robots everywhere, from your school to your own sitting room. But some warn that embracing this new age will spell the end of life as we know it.
2030 forecast: anti-robot uprisings
Takeover: South Korea became the first country in the world to replace 10% of its workforce with robots, with 1,102 robots per 10,000 employees, according to the World Robotics 2024 annual survey. Glossary
Dementia - A syndrome associated with memory loss and other declining brain functions.
Radical - Extreme.
CES - The Consumer Electronics Show
Revenue - Income.
GDP - Short for Gross Domestic Product, the measure of all the goods and services produced inside a country.
Automated - When a job is done by machines instead of humans.
Salary - How much someone earns for doing their job.
Advocates - Someone who publicly supports or recommends a particular policy. The word originates from the Latin vocare, meaning to call.
Industrial Revolution - A period of sudden, rapid industrialisation that transforms a country from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Strike - When people refuse to work until their demands for changes have been met.
Existential - Relating to the state of human existence. Existential dread can refer to grappling with your own experiences of responsibility and death.