Copyrighted Image? DMCA | In the late 20th century, while the blue-collar working class gave way to the forces of globalization and automation, the educated elite looked on with benign condescension. Too bad for those people whose jobs were mindless enough to be taken over by third world teenagers or, more humiliatingly, machines. The solution, pretty much agreed upon across the political spectrum, was education. Americans had to become intellectually nimble enough to keep ahead of the job-destroying trends unleashed by technology, both robotization and the telecommunication systems that make outsourcing possible. Anyone who wanted a spot in the middle class would have to possess a college degree -- as well as flexibility, creativity and a continually upgraded skill set.
But, as Martin Ford documents in "Rise of the Robots," the job-eating maw of technology now threatens even the nimblest... |
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