"Consequently, despite the appearance of many new human jobs, we might nevertheless witness the rise of a new ‘useless’ class. We might actually get the worst of both worlds, suffering simultaneously from high unemployment and a shortage of skilled labour. Many people might share the fate not of nineteenth-century wagon drivers – who switched to driving taxis – but of nineteenth-century horses, who were increasingly pushed out of the job market altogether."
Looking at how many small restaurants have closed in Guangdong, it seems like the prediction in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is right—at least in some political systems.
This is brilliant!
FYI, the very first BMW Motorrad K engine, was designed as a 'Kompakt' automobile engine with dry clutch, and single swingarm transmission.
“Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computing system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
——Fred Singer, The Case for Man in Space, 1965
"The development of public education in particular was by no means spontaneous: war or the threat of war provided the impetus for its emergence in many nations worldwide."