This week, Marketplace started a great series on the ways that robots and automation are rapidly changing the jobs that are available to humans. This
It used to be that parents who wanted job security urged kids to get a degree with immediately practical applications—like Eboo Patel’s mother, who wanted
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Last week my colleague Kim Trent wrote about the rapidity at which automation is changing the job market and the skills that employers are looking
In the book The Second Machine Age, MIT professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson document the way in which technology and automation are changing our
The headlines were about President elect Trump saving 800 manufacturing jobs at a Carrier Indianapolis air conditioning plant. But two Business Insider articles do a
If you haven’t been convinced already by the approximately one million posts MFI has written over the years about the importance of a college degree
The core belief of Michigan Future is that because of globalization and technology, what made us prosperous in the past, won’t in the future. And
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