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There are a couple of interesting books about that topic [1, 2] The premise of most of them is that innovation its outpacing the hability of the average person
by pdelgallego 14y ago
There are a couple of interesting books about that topic [1, 2]
The premise of most of them is that innovation its outpacing the hability of the average person to keep him self employable. That will lead to massive unemployment, bigger wealth inequality and social unrest.
[1] Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
[2] The lights in the tunnel. Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead?
- eragnew 14y agoI'm starting to think that the key is to help the unemployed, the '99%', the 'others', to learn how to build their own businesses, their own livelihoods. To stop depending on someone else to provide a livelihood for them. That's where we're heading, in my view. That's the only way out of the current mess. Not to get too hippie-ish, but it's about combining self-interest with empathy for others.
- efsavage 14y ago"combining self-interest with empathy for others" is basically the real-deal Adam Smith brand of capitalism. Not the hollywood/cliffs-notes version we're living in now...