From DSC:
“Is a large swath of people being left behind?”


A few things I was thinking about prompted me to ask this:

  • The growth of robotics.
    Will this leave more blue-collar workers out of work? Very likely.
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  • The demand for technological skills, new media literacies, and the appreciation for the strategic value of technology
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  • New ways of doing business– many of them being new to us. That is, they are enabled by innovations that we didn’t grow up with.
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  • New jobs requiring brand new skills; yet because learning is not very enjoyable to many, they may not want to go back to “school.”
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Here’s but one recent example that relates to this line of thinking:

  • This robot could transform manufacturing — from TechhjnologyReview.com by Will Knight
    A smarter, safer new industrial robot could bring automation to new areas of manual work and help many U.S. manufacturers regain a competitive edge.
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Get a grip: Baxter demonstrates a simple manufacturing task at Rethink Robotics’ headquarters in Boston.
Daniel Lovering

 

 

 

We need lifelong learners and we need to enjoy learning!  If people are coming out of high school or college saying, “I’ll never do that again!” then we have a serious problem.