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Woz U is coming:
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, is launching a new online tech education platform he's calling Woz U, which is designed to promote technology jobs and the skills required to enter the industry. Over time, Wozniak hopes to expand the initiative to include as many as 30 physical locations around the world and courses on everything from software engineering and information technology to mobile app development and cybersecurity, among others. It's unclear whether courses will be offered for free, or whether Woz U plans on charging for any element of the online education platform. The website does not say.
Woz U also offers access to tech companies interested in using the tools and resources provided to recruit and train employees. The platform will be available to students K-12 through partnerships with school districts too. Down the line, Woz U wants to offer one-on-one instruction to students and, later on, to offer its own accelerator program for prospective startup founders. The overall goal is to increase interest in what Woz U calls STEAM careers, or science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics, with the addition of arts presumably a nod to Wozniak's role at Apple and fellow co-founder Steve Jobs' lifelong mission to blend technology with the humanities.
Also at TechCrunch, MacRumors, and Engadget.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Saturday October 14 2017, @11:02PM
Plumbers can easily make $300+ on a relatively simple fix. There are millionaire plumbers.
Truckers are never out of work and those with TWIC cards can make a lot of money. Also, there are companies offering $10k sign-on bonuses [schneiderjobs.com] for drivers, among other benefits. If a company like Amazon or Walmart doesn't keep its drivers happy, that company is AT RISK. It isn't clear when (if?) self-driving trucks will put truckers out of a job. Someone needs to unload the truck. Driverless trucks might be easier to hijack/steal from. The driver might be expected to respond to potential environmental disasters caused by a crashed truck. Etc.
Do you see a robot replacing plumbers within the next 20 years? I don't. When they do, then we can really start to fear the job-killing effects of automation.
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