The Prophesy Almost half the human professions, as we know them today, will have disappeared by 2050 as a result of task automation in developed economies. This Keynesian prediction, quantified by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne’s famous study on the jobs most susceptible to computerisation and corroborated by other economists,...
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify Suppose the unstoppable regression of our culture, the increasing dumbing down of humanity, was due to a deliberate plot to fritter away, among other shared heritage, our linguistic wealth? We can’t ignore the fact that, as has been happening in other fields since the...
The future of the professional translator Faced with such encouraging prospects, what does the future bring for translators? Will we be replaced by robots or will we choke up the bottlenecks of automation? According to the study by Frey and Osborne quoted at the beginning of this series, translation is currently at a level of...
