Technological unemployment : The economic impact of technology

The progress made in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, the rise of the Internet of Things, the processing of mass data, the emergence of 3D printing or the revolution announced of self-driving cars are now fueling worries about a "jobless future". This thesis researched these concerns which are not new: as at each new wave of significant innovation, at least since the Renaissance, the fear of technological unemployment linked to the substitution of man by the machine resurfaced. History has shown, however, that successive technological advances, those related to the automation of production, have, on the contrary, accompanied so far, a growth in employment, even if the nature and structure of jobs have at the same time deeply evolved, as well as their distribution in space. Furthermore, and by summarizing the outcomes of several retrospective and prospective, this thesis will try to conclude regarding if the current technological developments, dominated by digitization and marked by a considerable potential for automation, considering their nature, their scale and the speed of their diffusion, are likely to have a different impact on employment