How technological change is transforming the structure of employment. - Project Syndicate

Num futuro que só será possível complementar a tecnologia computacional e não mais competir com ela...Quando a revolução tecnológica vai engolir o Estado?

How technological change is transforming the structure of employment. - Project Syndicate

•             Long-run economic growth involves more than just increasing output in existing factories; it is also implies structural changes in employment.

•             But the likes of Detroit, Lille, or Leeds have not suffered because of falling manufacturing output; on the contrary, output has been growing in these cities over the past decade. Instead, their decline stems directly from their failure to attract different types of jobs

•             Rather than trying to preserve the past by propping up old industries, officials should focus on managing the transition to new forms of work.

•             The story of industrial development competition between an increasingly educated workforce and new technology that would dispense with their skills. Robots that can carry out the routine jobs that were once performed by thousands of middle-income assembly-line workers.

•             We already have a reasonable idea of what computers will be able to do in the near future, because the technologies are already being developed. We know, for example, that a wide range of skilled professions can be simplified with the help of “big data” and sophisticated algorithms.

• Improved sensory technology means that many transportation and logistics jobs will soon be fully automated:

• Transforming the legal profession: Symantec is developing a system which uses language analysis to identify general concepts in documents, and boasts of analyzing and sorting more than 570,000 documents in just two days.

•             Technological progress is generating demand for big data architects and analysts, cloud services specialists, software developers, and digital marketing professionals – occupations that barely existed just five years ago.

•             Finland’s intensive investment in education has created a resilient labor force. By investing in transferable skills that are not limited to specific businesses or industries, or susceptible to computerization, Finland has provided a blueprint for how to adapt to technological upheaval. That labor will continue to have a comparative advantage in social intelligence and creativity enhancing these skills, so that they complement, rather than compete with, computer technologies.