The Luddites' quest to destroy machines that could let lower-wage workers replace skilled craftsmen is often turned into a simplistic story about technophobia, but they hit on a problem that would come up for centuries afterwards: how do we deal with the negative short-term effects that new technology can have on an industry without trying to turn back the clock? At The New York Times , economics professors David H. Autor and David Dorn argue that automation may inherently split society into well-paid knowledge classes and poor, low-skilled labor, and that urging everyone to go to college won't fix the problem. Instead, they suggest a focus on vocational training in jobs that remain too flexible to be done by machines but not so arcane...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/26/4661624/can-middle-class-workers-robot-proof-their-jobs
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