CBC quoted Adam Saunders, a UBC Sauder School of Business professor, after new data shows unemployment is decreasing in Canada despite claims technology is supposed to make more jobs obsolete.
Saunder, who researches the connection between technology and economics, said technology is both creating and destroying work. He highlighted an example from the movie Up in the Air when George Clooney’s character travels telling people they have lost their jobs.
“There’s no reason why a computer couldn’t do that,” Saunders said. “But there are things that human beings, in terms of empathy, for example, can do much better.”
