post brexit

[shaunaneto]

On a different topic I was watching Countryfile whilst relaxing with a nice Sherry yesterday. The evening edition you understand, never drink Sherry before 9am.

Anyway, it did get me thinking about the impact of Brexit on automation as they had a wee section on agricultural automation. A sector that's already seen large scale reductions in total numbers of employees over the last couple of hundred years.

The change is coming, barring economic apocalypse. But it might be coming quicker than before.

Driverless tractors, harvesters, seeders, weeders, all on the cards for the coming years. Interesting times with some big implications across society as a whole.

I know we've seen waves of automation before, but the capabilities of incoming technologies is leading us down a road where it'll be cheaper to use a robot than a low skilled worker.

Edit, probably should mention that it might only need the perceived threat of losing cheap labour to accelerate the change.