<\/a>Advances such as robotics and voice recognition are automating many low-skilled positions, but as these economists emphasize, \u201cother technologies like data visualization, analytics, high speed communications, and rapid prototyping have augmented the contributions of more abstract and data-driven reasoning, increasing the values of these jobs.\u201d In other words, those with the oracular ability to work with and tease valuable results out of increasingly complex machines will thrive. Tyler Cowen summarizes this reality more bluntly: \u201cThe key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe ace programmer David Heinemeier Hansson provides an example of the second group that Brynjolfsson and McAfee predict will thrive in our new economy: \u201csuperstars.\u201d High-speed data networks and collaboration tools like e-mail and virtual meeting software have destroyed regionalism in many sectors of knowledge work. It no longer makes sense, for example, to hire a full-time programmer, put aside office space, and pay benefits, when you can instead pay one of the world\u2019s best programmers, like Hansson, for just enough time to complete the project at hand. In this scenario, you\u2019ll probably get a better result for less money, while Hansson can service many more clients per year, and will therefore also end up better off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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