Or they could read Dancing With Robots and hope the political sponsors (and financial type trustees) of this piece know what they're talking about and aren't just playing politics.
The authors, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane hang their hats at MIT and Harvard, respectively.
From Third Way:
How do we ensure American middle class prosperity in an era of ever-intensifying globalization and technological upheaval? That is the question we are trying to answer with NEXT—a new project at Third Way that taps into cutting edge research by top American academics.
We all know about losing jobs to China, but what about losing jobs to the microchip? In Dancing with Robots, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane show that the pressure on the middle class workforce in America has as much to do with the technology revolution and computerization of tasks as with global forces like China.
The authors argue that the challenge we face with computerized work is not mass unemployment, but rather educating far more young people for the higher wage jobs that computers cannot do—writing a convincing legal brief or diagnosing an automotive problem the factory had not foreseen....MORE
HT: Bloomberg's editorial "Will Robots Take All Our Blue-Collar Jobs?".
