Talks from the World Summit on Technological Unemployment, was on September 15.
" .... The World Technology Network (www.WTN.net), a community of the world's most innovative individuals and organizations in science, technology, and related fields, launched the first-ever World Summit on Technological Unemployment on September 29, 2015, at the TIME Conference Center in the historic TIME & LIFE Building in New York City.
Accelerating technological unemployment will likely be one of the most challenging societal issues in the 21st Century. Never before in history are so many industries being simultaneously upended by new technologies. Though "creative destruction," in which lost jobs are replaced with new ones, will be a factor, our newest technologies have the clear potential to eliminate many more jobs than we create. With technology advancing at a geometric pace, robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D-printing, and other innovations with enormous disruptive potential will soon hit the mainstream. Billions of people worldwide are currently employed in industries that will likely be affected—and billions of new entrants to the workforce will need jobs.
While much has been written about the coming collision of rapidly advancing technology and an increasingly displaced workforce (a recent Oxford study predicts 47% of US jobs gone from technology within two decades), there has been no structured attempt at any level of government, academia, or industry to define, address, and even begin to conceive solutions to what may well be the greatest threat to our social fabric in the years ahead. ... "
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