Make or Break: The UK’s Digital Future
HOUSE OF LORDS | Select Committee on Digital Skills | Report of Session 2014–15 | Published 17 February 2015
This report is a call to action for the incoming Government in May 2015.
The world is being transformed by a series of profound technological changes dominated by digital—a ‘second machine age’. This is already having a significant impact on the UK; over the next two decades some economists have estimated that 35% of current jobs in the UK could become automated. Digital technology is changing all our lives, work, society and politics. It brings with it huge opportunities for the UK, but also significant risks.