Robotics & The Future Of Labor – In Health Care & Elsewhere

I have been mulling over a discussion that I watched a couple months ago between author Alec Ross and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria about the next wave of technology and its impact on the labor force (see Ross On The Future Of Work). The information that stood out: almost a quarter of American males are employed in a job that involves driving a car, bus, or truck – and that these jobs will gradually be replaced by technology. This technology wave has two components. First, there is technology that decreases the need for people to go somewhere (online shopping, 3-D . . .