The Sky Isn’t Falling, But Here’s How Automation Will Affect CRE

Predicting a future in which all or most of human labor has been replaced by automation has become an almost fevered pastime among the technologists, entrepreneurs, and policy wonks who make up the world of technology journalism. Whether this is describing a utopian world of leisure and culture or a dystopian hellscape of inequality is the dealer’s choice. Add that to the cacophony on the other side that insists that those who are worried about losing their jobs are wrong (and quite possibly soft in the head), and you have a discussion that is difficult to make any real sense of....

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RSK: The thing to take out of this for CRE is tenants will want more flexible space and lease terms. If you can deliver this you will be on top of the automation game for awhile...