This week, Tom is sitting down with the president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, Jamie Merisotis. In this episode, Jamie discusses his newest book, Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines. In his book, Jamie makes that case that the question is not, “What is the future of work?” but, “What is the work of the future?”
As headlines about higher education go, this has to be one of the most clever: “Highbrow Robbery: The Colleges Call It Tuition, We Call It Plunder.”
The opening line was: “Everybody seems to agree these days that college costs too much.” The date of the story, from one of my back issues of the excellent Washington Monthly magazine: 1983.
Federal stimulus checks that helped millions of Americans weather the initial months of the COVID-19 crisis have resurfaced calls for adopting universal basic income.
The future may be “now” as we evolve into the age of high tech, smart machines, and artificial intelligence. Add to that, COVID-19’s impact on the workplace. How will all these factors affect Indiana’s workforce and what has higher education learned from the pandemic?
Last week, MDLF Executive Director Mike Young spoke with Jamie Merisotis, President and CEO of Lumina Foundation, about the future of work. They talked about higher education, preparing people for human work, and some of the challenges and opportunities Indiana will face as one of the most manufacturing-intensive economies in the United States.
Uniquely human traits and capabilities will be more important in the post-coronavirus work landscape, according to Jamie Merisotis, author of a new book on the future of the workforce.
Jamie Merisotis cares deeply about work, the jobs that will be available in the years to come and the education and training people will need to perform well in those jobs. Since 2008, he has been president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation. Based on his experience at Lumina and past work as president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, he wrote HUMAN WORK IN THE AGE OF SMART MACHINES.
Could Indiana’s greatest economic strengths be its greatest weakness? It turns out that the sectors where Indiana is strongest are those most vulnerable to automation.
A year or so ago, while driving through upper New York State back to Canada, I heard on the radio that the local newspaper had laid off its part-time sports reporter – but had not stopped running stories about high school’s (American) football games.
