MIT article claims that poorer countries are increasingly the early tech adopters, but the recent article in The Financial Times describes how automation (robots) could destroy one of the tried-and-tested routes of economic growth, in which a country’s labor force moves from farms to factories, creating cheap goods for export, making it even harder for poor countries to get rich. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/10/1...make-it-even-harder-for-poor-countries-to-get
I was a good Automation Person that provided Heavy Automation all over the world including USA....I can say that such a thing would not happen. Humans can think great things...so there will be people like me that can jump in and solve those issues....so, not a problem. All we have to do is change the process (the tried ones)