Compared with booming profits, rich-country workers have lost out, as Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers and the spread ofcomputerautomation undermine bargaining power and wage growth.
David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect ofautomation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine.
This problem was solved by Dr Chua's collaborator, Tamas Roska, and his group at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.