Wednesday, March 16, 2016

DIGITALLABOR TO REPLACE DOCTORS

“In The Second Machine Age (Norton),
the M.I.T. professors Erik Bryn-jolfsson
and Andrew McAfee sketch a future where
computers will start replacing doctors,
lawyers, and many other highly educated
professionals. 'As digitallabor becomes more
more pervasive, capable, and powerful,’
they write, ‘companies will be increasingly
unwilling to pay people wages that they’ll accept, and that will
accept and that will allow them to maintain the standard of
the standard of living to which they've been accustomed.’
accustomed.’”’



                       
Cassidy, John, “College Calculus, What’s the Real Value of College Education?” New Yorker, September 7, 2015, pp: 80-84.