Almost half the jobs Americans thought were safe will soon be done by robots — from qz.com by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne
Excerpt:
Commentators today are less optimistic. “How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class,” a recent New York Times Column by David Autor and David Dorn, captures an observation made by several commentators: technology has turned on labor.
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The threat of computerization has historically been largely confined to routine manufacturing tasks involving explicit rule-based activities such as part construction and assembly. But a look at 700 occupation types (pdf) in the US suggests that 47% are at risk from a threat that once only loomed for a small proportion of workers.
From DSC:
What does — or should — this mean for K-12? For higher education? For the corporate world? For curricula? Skills? Values? How can we pivot NOW to help our students survive/thrive in this quickly-changing world?
Addendum on 9/27/13:
- Robots May Revolutionize China’s Electronics Manufacturing — wsj.com by Paul Mozur and Eva Dou
Machines in Pipeline to Supplant Workers as Pay Soars and People Age