Before entering the debate of automation, it is important to understand how technology would be impacting the future of work. McKinsey Global institute’s Report on India’s tech opportunity: Transforming work, empowering people, nitpicks the twelve technologies which will reshape business, economy and the future of work in India. The twelve technologies that have been identified are – ‘Mobile internet’; ‘Cloud technology’; ‘Automation of knowledge work’; ‘Digital payments’; ‘Verifiable digital identity’; ‘Internet of Things’; ‘Intelligent transportation and distribution’; ‘Advanced geographic information systems’; ‘Next generation genomics’; ‘Advanced oil and gas exploration and recovery’; ‘Renewable energy’; and ‘Advanced energy storage’. The collective economic impact that these.technologies could have has been estimated t...