Digitising our daily jobs would give us more access to a resource that's increasingly scarce: time

© Zizhe Wang

In a previous blog, I discussed the report by Oxford University on how our jobs might be computerised in the next two decades. A recent study by consulting firm McKinsey touches upon the topic, but from a slightly different angle.

It does not focus on jobs per se, but on job-related activities that could be digitised.

According to the Oxford report, 47% of US jobs are at risk of being computerised; while the McKinsey study concludes that 45% of the activities we ...