Vivek Wadhwa
Vivek Wadhwa is a person.
References
2014
- (Wadhwa, 2014) ⇒ Vivek Wadhwa. (2014). “We’re Heading into a Jobless Future, no Matter What the Government Does.” In: Advancing Technologies, Public policy, Washington Post, Jul 21st 2014.
- QUOTE: ... The only solution that I see is a shrinking work week. We may perhaps be working for 10 to 20 hours a week instead of the 40 for which we do today. And with the prices of necessities and of what we today consider luxury goods dropping exponentially, we may not need the entire population to be working. There is surely a possibility for social unrest because of this; but we could also create the utopian future we have long dreamed of, with a large part of humanity focused on creativity and enlightenment.
Regardless, at best we have another 10 to 15 years in which there is a role for humans. The number of available jobs will actually increase in the U.S. and Europe before it decreases. China is out of time because it has a manufacturing-based economy, and those jobs are already disappearing. Ironically, China is accelerating this demise by embracing robotics and 3D printing. As manufacturing comes back to the U.S., new factories need to be built, robots need to be programmed, and new infrastructure needs to be developed. To install new hardware and software on existing cars to make them self-driving, we will need many new auto mechanics. We need to manufacture the new medical sensors, install increasingly efficient solar panels, and write new automation software.
So the future is very bright for some countries in the short term, and in the long term is uncertain for all. The only certainty is that much change lies ahead that no one really knows how to prepare for.
- QUOTE: ... The only solution that I see is a shrinking work week. We may perhaps be working for 10 to 20 hours a week instead of the 40 for which we do today. And with the prices of necessities and of what we today consider luxury goods dropping exponentially, we may not need the entire population to be working. There is surely a possibility for social unrest because of this; but we could also create the utopian future we have long dreamed of, with a large part of humanity focused on creativity and enlightenment.
2008
- (Gereffi et al., 2008) ⇒ Gary Gereffi, Vivek Wadhwa, Ben Rissing, and Ryan Ong. (2008). “Getting the Numbers Right: International engineering education in the United States, China, and India.” In: Journal of Engineering Education, 97(1). doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00950.x
2007
- (Wadhwa et al., 2007) ⇒ Vivek Wadhwa, AnnaLee Saxenian, Ben A. Rissing, and Gary Gereffi. (2007). “America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part I." Technical Report, Duke Science, Technology & Innovation, Paper 23.