Learning to Save the Future
Rethinking Education and Work in an Era of Digital Capitalism
- Editore:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Collana:
- Critical Interventions
- EAN:
9781138212619
- ISBN:
113821261X
- Pagine:
- 178
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Learning to Save the Future
Mainstream economists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs claim that unfettered capitalism and digital technology can unlock a future of unbounded prosperity, create endless high paying jobs, and solve the world's vast social and ecological problems. Realizing this future of abundance purportedly rests in the transformation of human potential into innovative human capital through new 21st century forms of education. In this new book Alex Means challenges this view. Stagnating economic growth and runaway inequality have emerged as the 'normal' condition of advanced capitalism. Simultaneously, there has been a worldwide educational expansion and a growing surplus of college-educated workers relative to their demand in the world economy. This surplus is complicated by an emerging digital revolution driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning that generates worker displacing innovations and immaterial forms of labor and valorization.
