Robots will take our jobs. We’d better plan now, before it’s too late | Larry Elliott

The opening of the Amazon Go store in Seattle brings us one step closer to the end of work as we know itA new sort of convenience store opened in the basement of the headquarters of Amazon in Seattle in January. Customers walk in, scan their phones, pick what they want off the shelves and walk out again. At Amazon Go there are no checkouts and no cashiers. Instead, it is what the tech giant calls “just walk out” shopping, made possible by a new generation of machines that can sense w