More opposition registered in vote on executive pay report. : If left to their own devices at retirement, significant numbers are likely to run out of assets years before they die Sometimes patterns are not clear until they are examined closely. In the hubbub of daily life it is easy to miss unfolding trends The robotics and automation theme has been gaining a lot of attention recently for good reasons. There is an industrial revolution  emerging across all industries as they realise that the new tools and applications being developed will be highly disruptive to existing business models.