Education and Technological Unemployment
This book examines the challenge of accelerating automation, and argues that countering and adapting to this challenge requires new methodological, philosophical, scientific, sociological, economic, ethical, and political perspectives that fundamentally r
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Education and Technological Unemployment
Michael A. Peters Petar Jandrić Alexander J. Means •
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Education and Technological Unemployment
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Editors Michael A. Peters Beijing Normal University Beijing, China
Petar Jandrić Zagreb University of Applied Sciences Zagreb, Croatia
Alexander J. Means University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Honolulu, HI, USA
ISBN 978-981-13-6224-8 ISBN 978-981-13-6225-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6225-5
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Preface
Technological unemployment is a crucial issue of our time. The evaluations of its likelihood vary with increasing reports coming down on the side of severe economic and social disruption, although there are dissenters who dispute the evidence and argue that the new technologies will produce as many jobs as they destroy. To us, this positive reading and prediction is based on a misreading of the nature of the new technologies and their convergence and synergy. With the so-called nano-info-bio-cogno technologies and their convergence, there is little doubt that we are not facing a straightforward and linear development. The changes are exponential and dynamic. They will be far reaching. When one contemplates the next generation driven by the power of quantum computing and advance algorithms that drive Industry 4.0 and ‘intelligent’ manufacturing, it is clear from emergent and early existing experimental practices that these tendencies will accelerate and lead to labourless factories working on a 24/7 cycle. This is not to embrace a technolog
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