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The Rise of the Useless Class

Yuval Noah Harari
Israel
2017
ideas.ted.com

Since we do not know how the job market would look in 2030 or 2040, today we have no idea what to teach our kids. Most of what they currently learn at school will probably be irrelevant by the time they are 40. Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning, followed by a period of working. Very soon this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves repeatedly. Many, if not most, humans may be unable to do so. - Yuval Noah Harari

World Economic Forum Declares - We Just Don’t Need The Vast Majority of You. Harari, known as World Economic Forum’s right hand man, made the disturbing comments in an interview with Chris Anderson, head of the TED media group, echoing past predictions of a - useless class of - obsolete and unemployable humans. - Ray DiLorenzo