TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT: EDUCATING FOR THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

摘要

This paper reviews recent concerns and discussions about technological unemployment focusing on the trope "the robots are coming" and beginning with reference to the World Summit (2015) devoted to the issue. There is consensus that robots and big datasystems will disrupt labor markets, kill jobs and cause social inequalities. The paper examines Klaus Schwab's concept of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" - a concept that underlied the recent Davos meeting to inquire about the role of education in anage of automated cognition.