For decades the road to success in the developed world has been straightforward. A university education, increasingly treated as a sort of white-collar trade school, offered people the chance to acquire specialist knowledge which could be used to secure a position lingering at a desk for 40 years. For those of us who grew up watching machines replace men on the assembly line, acquiring a degree was the way to escape this fate. In the digital age, however, the automation of cognitive labor has forced many professionals to confront a threat that once seemed confined to workers on the factory floor.

A new revolt against technological progress might come from the very people who encouraged it when they thought their qualifications placed them beyond its reach

A new revolt against technological progress might come from the very people who encouraged it when they thought their qualifications placed them beyond its reach

Earlier this week, Gallup reported that 27 percent of US employees worry that technology will make their jobs obsolete. This figure is more than double the 13 percent recorded when Gallup began asking the question in 2017. The educational divide in replacement........

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