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But will Africa and other low wage, low infrastructure economies be caught in an automation trap?

Where low cost/low value and consistent/repetitive products and services are automated and the high end is protected by advanced infrastructure economies,

Would they be better off focused on education and trialling a licensed Lambda-like School with a nationalised income share agreement?

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> But will Africa and other low wage, low infrastructure economies be caught in an automation trap?

This is a good question, one that I'm wondering about myself. I'm hoping to read "How Asia Works" in the near future, to better understand what specific factors were relevant in the early economic success of East Asia.

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