Futile to resist disruptive tech changes: Eng Hen

Singapore

AS disruptive technologies automate and displace jobs, workers worldwide - and in particular, millennials - will have to grapple with the challenge of remaining employable, said Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen in Germany on Sunday.

Speaking at the eighth Munich Young Leaders Round Table on the sidelines of the 52nd Munich Security Conference, Dr Ng stressed that any Luddite attempt to resist technological advancements will prove fruitless.

Said Dr Ng: "If you take two simple examples, robotics and artificial intelligence, you will see for your generation more and more jobs become automated. You cannot beat a machine that works 24/7, produces a product or service that cannot join unions, that does not strike and complain, and once yo…