Our students and staff will need to be prepared for this future that is already here. We are in the midst of a transportation revolution (+automated self-driving cars) similar to the transformation of farming during the industrial revolution.
----- "The imminent need for basic income in recognition of our machine-driven future Late last year, I took a road trip with my partner from our home in New Orleans, Louisiana to Orlando, Florida and as we drove by town after town, we got to talking about the potential effects self-driving vehicle technology would have not only on truckers themselves, but on all the local economies dependent on trucker salaries. Once one starts wondering about this kind of one-two punch to America’s gut, one sees the prospects aren’t pretty." Read on "Data scientists, the elusive kingpins in the Big Data movement, are earning base salaries of well over $200K, are younger, overwhelmingly male, have at least a master’s degree and probably a Ph.D., and one in three are foreign born, according to the first-ever study looking at salaries, education levels, gender and geographical location of this new profession. Almost half of all data scientists are on the West Coast working for technology and gaming companies."
Read more @ KDnuggets Did you know that truck/delivery driving jobs are the most numerous in California and throughout the United States?
Here is a visualization of the most common jobs in every state. Please make sure to click on the Subtitles/CC to view subtitles in English.
Watching the instrument take form layer by layer is the art prior to the art of creating music. "The meaning of music, despite sounding redundant, is to harmonize human acts and ideas, and also to generate a parallel language to our oral construction and our way of expressing knowledge." |
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