{"id":32702,"date":"2012-09-21T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=32702"},"modified":"2012-09-22T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:53:49","slug":"is-a-large-swath-of-people-being-left-behind-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/09\/21\/is-a-large-swath-of-people-being-left-behind-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a large swath of people being left behind? [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;Is a large swath of people being left behind?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A few things I was thinking about prompted me to ask this:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The growth of robotics.<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Will this leave more blue-collar workers out of work? Very likely.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The demand for technological skills, new media literacies, and the appreciation for the <em>strategic<\/em> value of technology<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>New ways of doing business&#8211; many of them being new to us. That is, they are enabled by innovations that we didn&#8217;t grow up with<\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>New jobs requiring brand new skills; yet because learning is not very enjoyable to many, they may not want to go back to &#8220;school.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Here&#8217;s but one recent example that relates to this line of thinking:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/429248\/this-robot-could-transform-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This robot could transform manufacturing<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from TechhjnologyReview.com by Will Knight<br \/>\n<em>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.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/429248\/this-robot-could-transform-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/files\/91231\/rodney.brooksx616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Get a grip:<\/strong> Baxter demonstrates a simple manufacturing task at Rethink Robotics\u2019 headquarters in Boston.<br \/>\nDaniel Lovering<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2012\/09\/rethink-robotics-reveals-its.html\">Rethink robotics reveals its revolutionary Baxter Manufacturing Robot<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from nextbigfuture.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=rjPFqkFyrOY\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rethink Robotics: Meet Baxter<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=rjPFqkFyrOY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32703 aligncenter\" title=\"rethink-robotics-sept2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rethink-robotics-sept2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rethink-robotics-sept2012.jpg 344w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/rethink-robotics-sept2012-63x150.jpg 63w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2012\/09\/mind_the_skills_gap.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>We need <\/em>lifelong<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2012\/09\/mind_the_skills_gap.html\" target=\"_blank\"> learners<\/a> and we need to enjoy learning!\u00a0 If people are coming out of high school or college saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ll never do that again!&#8221; then we have a serious problem.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: &#8220;Is a large swath of people being left behind?&#8221; 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. . The demand for technological skills, new media literacies, and the appreciation for the strategic value of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,174,210,82,237,95,423,44,437,480,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-career-development","category-emerging-technologies","category-engineering","category-entrepreneurship","category-global-globalization","category-love-of-learning","category-pace-of-change","category-robotics","category-society","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32702"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32745,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702\/revisions\/32745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}