Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller on “What to Learn in College to Stay One Step Ahead of Computers”:
“Most people
complete the majority of their formal education by their early 20s and expect
to draw on it for the better part of a century. But a computer can learn in
seconds most of the factual information that people get in high school and
college, and there will be a great many generations of new computers and
robots, improving at an exponential rate, before one long human lifetime has
passed.
Two strains of
thought seem to dominate the effort to deal with this problem. The first is
that we teachers should define and provide to our students a certain kind of
general, flexible, insight-bearing human learning that, we hope, cannot be
replaced by computers. The second is that we need to make education more
business-oriented, teaching about the real world and enabling a creative
entrepreneurial process that, presumably, computers cannot duplicate. These two
ideas are not necessarily in conflict.”
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Advice for college graduates from economists
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-22/economists-offer-these-10-career-tips-for-today-s-graduates