If we’re not empowering our kids to be able to produce and create with technology, they’ll just become consumers, and we need to reverse that trend.
That from Jeff Wilson, Executive Director for Brilliant Labs, which supports innovation, coding and entrepreneurial spirit within the classroom.
Wilson says trends show that a lot of jobs will be lost to robotics and robots in the future.
He says we need to create a society that can design, program, service and sell robots rather than lose jobs to robots.
Foxconn, which is one of Apple’s main suppliers plans to replace two-thirds of its workforce with robots over the next five years.
Wilson uses auto manufacturing as another example.
He says employers are intrigued by robots because they don’t need breaks, they just keep going.