Future proof: Britain in the 2020s, an IPPR explainer - Technology

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Accelerating technological change will transform how we live and work, communicate and consume. Political institutions will be reshaped, social norms changed, and economic relationships restructured. Radical advances in four key areas – automation and manufacturing, information technologies, resource technologies, and health technologies – will make the dreams of science fiction increasingly the reality of ordinary life by 2030.

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