Clueless gather for a gob-fest re the ailing economy

Should We Fear "the End of Work"?

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In this 2012 Making Sen$e report, "Man vs. Machine," Paul Solman examines the future of the American worker.

Paul Solman: "Man vs. Machine." Long the staple of science fiction, the "end of work" now beckons as reality. Journalist, author and Friend Of Making Sen$e (FOM$) Frank Koller attended a conference on the debate at Cornell University recently. He was accommodating enough to file this report.

Koller's book, "Spark," fired our renewed interest in the remarkable Rust Belt manufacturing firm Lincoln Electric, on which we reported in the early 1990s and again in 2011, with Koller prominently featured. A firestorm of comments followed, which we summarized on the Making Sen$e Business Desk. Finally, Koller himself weighed in. Now for Koller's take on the future-of-work debate.

Frank Koller: Story One goes like this: "If you're talking about 100 years from now, all jobs will be gone ... including the creative ones."

Story Two sounds like this: "The recovery of jobs is not all that bad ... it's moving in the right direction."

Okay, are these two folks living on the same planet? Yes. In fact -- amazingly and thankfully -- they were in the same room, sharing ideas about changes in the American workplace brought about by new technologies.

More: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/07/should-we-fear-the-end-of-work.html

Clueless gather for a gob-fest re the ailing economy

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