Session #6 – IT and Your Career
Class Slides and Videos – Session #6
Session 6 – IT and Your Career.pdf
Amazon Go – Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011#)
Banking’s Precarious Position – Less Branch Customers – NBR (http://nbr.com/2013/04/11/bankings-precarious-position-less-branch-customers/)
Firms Replacing Derivatives Traders with Algorithms – Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/47459f6d-644e-4db4-bf14-84be53c81b40)
Fully Automated Restaurant – CNET (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1o4Y-92k8Q)
Robot Journalists – The Daily Show (http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fh76l0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-robot-journalists)
Self-Driving Truck Makes First Shipment – CNNMoney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOPwq8WZB6c)
Technology Kills Middle Class Jobs – AP (http://www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/1857519/ap-analysis-technology-kills-middle-class-jobs/)
What Will Future Jobs Look Like by Andrew McAfee – TED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXQrbxD9_Ng)
World Business – Legal Outsourcing – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCKYLu8Xmg#!)
Class Recordings – April 25
Reading Brief Qs for Session #6 – Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?
Read “Will Humans Go the Way of Horses” articles from Foreign Affairs and write answers to the following questions in no more than 200 words.
- How do the authors (Brynjolfsson and McAfee) compare humans to horses?
- What are the advantages of humans vis-a-vis machines?
- What are the authors’ policy proposals?
The article is available at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-16/will-humans-go-way-horses and free upon registration.
Session #6 – In-Class Discussion Questions
- What’s “jobless recovery”? Why is this happening?
- Why has the median family income not been rising while GDP was growing rapidly for the past 20 years?
- What’s “skill mismatch”? Why is this happening?
- What kind of jobs are more vulnerable to technology development?
- What kind of jobs are relatively immune to technology development?
- What would you say to your children about the impact of technology on jobs?
- What would you say to your kid’s school principal about it?
- What would you say to President Trump about it?
- What would you say to yourself about it?