Probably not. Martin Ford, who has written extensively on technological unemployment, argues that in 2014, 90% of the USA’s 150m workers were doing jobs which already existed 100 years earlier. (28) Even if we can keep inventing new types of employment, will the rate of churn be too fast for us to keep up? Will we all be able to change our career annually or every six months as computers keep stealing our old ones? The rapid growth of online education (the MOOC, or Massive Open Online Courses revolution) means that employees can re-skill themselves faster than ever before, and for free. But we
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