"Society is on the leading edge of a technology tsunami. Advances in artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, robotics, nanotechnology, deep learning, mapping the human brain, and biomedical, genetic, and cyborg engineering will revolutionize how most of us live and work. Technology will be able to learn, as well as teach and program itself. We call this next big step the Smart machine Age, or SMA.
The SMA has the potential t be as disruptive and transformative for us as the Agriculture Age and Industrial Revolution were for our ancestors. In the last few decades, the American worker has been outsourced, offshored, and automated on many factory floors and in many routine tasks. Up next is a broader and more encompassing automation that will likely affect many more workers, including many professionals. This new reality should cause many of us to ask:
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