
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

Again, it is about blending the cognitive strengths of humans and computers.
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
The growing value of conscientiousness in the workplace helps women do better than men at work and in colleges and universities.
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
The ability to mix technical knowledge with solving real-world problems is the key, not sheer number-crunching or programming for its own sake. Number-crunching skills will be turned over to the machines sooner or later.
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Despite all the talk about STEM fields, I see marketing as the seminal sector for our future economy.
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
If you’re a young male hothead who just can’t follow orders, and you have your own ideas about how everything should be done, you’re probably going to have an ever-tougher time in the labor markets of the future. There won’t be much room for a “rebel without a cause” or, for that matter, a rebel with a cause. It’s not surprising that teen employmen
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This is the wave that will lift you or that will dump you.
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
There is now a joke that “a modern textile mill employs only a man and a dog—the man to feed the dog, and the dog to keep the man away from the machines.”
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
When it comes to these complex tasks, people have to know what they are doing, they have to want to learn, and they have to want to cooperate with their fellow workers.
Tyler Cowen • Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
workers more and more will come to be classified into two categories. The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer? Are computers helping people in Chin
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