Re: tech creates jobs, Tyler Cowen's Average is Over has an interesting passage about automation: "Keeping an unmanned Predator drone in the air for twenty-fou

Re: tech creates jobs, Tyler Cowen's Average is Over has an interesting passage about automation: "Keeping an unmanned Predator drone in the air for twenty-four hours requires about 168 workers laboring in the background. A larger drone, such as the Global Hawk surveillance drone, needs about 300 people...an F-16 fighter aircraft requires fewer than 100 people for a single mission." It's well known that the industrial revolution created countless new jobs that were unimaginable at the time, a sentiment echoed in The Second Machine Age by Brynjolfsson. But how do you pick the winners that will bring the most jobs? Some say disruptive innovation, but it still seems like an open question.