This week we roam far and wide in our search for the top trends in tech, from the history of robots, to a huge battle for dominance in the Indian mobile phone market, and an innovative way of interacting with your radio.
Robots and jobs
This week a major exhibition on the history of robots opened at London's Science Museum. It tracks our relationship with humanoid devices from the 16th century right up to the present day, where robots embedded with artificial intelligence are encroaching on all sorts of jobs.
The curator of the exhibition Ben Russell was once an economic historian so he has an interesting perspective on the impact of automation on employment. He tells us that concerns about new technology taking jobs are not new, pointing out that in the Industrial Revolution those fears led to riots and social unrest.
Right now, he argues that there is a choice between accepting mechanisation, with fewer, more skilled workers, or going down a labour-intensive route where you employ lots of people but pay them very little.
Laura Gardiner, who has studied the impact of automation for the Resolution Foundation, is hopeful: 'At the aggregate level, technology and automation have generally been complementary to employment rather than replacing it.'
For all the gloomy forecasts of mass unemployment, she says there are no signs yet that we are falling off a cliff. She believes that pattern can continue and that we can adapt and learn to work alongside the robots.
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