69传媒 and the Future of Work
What Will Our 69传媒 Need to Know?
September 27, 2017
Technological change, globalization, and climate instability are happening at an accelerating pace all across the world. Artificial intelligence and automation are the engines driving much of the transformation in the workplace. Some experts even predict that 47 percent of today鈥檚 jobs could be done by machines within a couple of decades.
So what skills do students need to succeed in the uncertain, intensely competitive workplace of the future? Education Week begins answering that question in this special report, 鈥69传媒 and the Future of Work.鈥
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