This book examines the challenge of accelerating automation and argues that countering and
adapting to this challenge requires new methodological philosophical scientific sociological
economic ethical and political perspectives that fundamentally rethink the categories of work
and education. What is required is political will and social vision to respond to the question:
What is the role of education in a digital age characterized by potential mass technological
unemployment?Today's technologies are beginning to cost more jobs than they create - and this
trend will continue. There have been many proposed solutions to this problem and they
invariably involve an educational vision. Yet in a world that simply doesn't offer enough work
for everyone education is clearly not a panacea for technological unemployment.This collection
presents responses to this question from a wide spectrum of disciplines including but not
limited to education studies philosophy history politics sociology psychology and
economics.
