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Today's 6th graders will hit their prime working years in 2030.
By that time, the "robot apocalypse" could be fully upon us. Automation and artificial intelligence could have eliminated half the jobs in the United States economy.
Or, plenty of jobs could still exist, but today's students could be locked in a fierce competition for a few richly rewarded positions requiring advanced technical and interpersonal skills. Robots and algorithms would take care of what used to be solid working- and middle-class jobs. And the kids who didn't get that cutting-edge computer science course or life-changing middle school project? They'd be relegated to a series of dead-end positions, serving the elites who did.
Alternatively, maybe Bill Gates and Elon Musk and the other big names ringing the alarm are wrong. A decade from now, perhaps companies will still complain they can't find employees who can read an instruction manual and pass a drug test. Maybe workers will still be able to hold on to the American Dream, so long as they can adjust to incremental technological shifts in the workplace.
Which vision will prove correct?
30 years into the Information Revolution and schools are only just now realizing they should teach kids how to code...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday December 15 2017, @08:53PM (1 child)
Because there's still one thing the haves want to have that they need the have-nots for: Power. You cannot have power without people over whom you can exert that power.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 15 2017, @09:04PM
Also, it's not half as much fun to eat your cake unless there are hordes of starving peasants watching you do it.
Washington DC delenda est.