http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/06/09/frank-levy/education-and-inequality-in-the-creative-age/ Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:31:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/06/09/frank-levy/education-and-inequality-in-the-creative-age/#comment-1749 Ipso Facto » Blog Archive » The Coming (or Continued?) Hegemony of Sophisticates Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:48:33 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/06/09/frank-levy/education-and-inequality-in-the-creative-age/#comment-1749 [...] Cato also published several replies to Florida. Frank Levy, a urban studies professor at MIT, replies to Florida’s article. He sums up the labor evolutionary patterns very well: If a job can be fully expressed in rules—withdrawing money from a bank account or issuing an airline boarding pass—it can and will be programmed for a computer. If most of a job can be expressed in rules, the rules can be explained to someone in the Philippines who will do the job for much lower wages and so the job will move offshore. [...] […] Cato also published several replies to Florida. Frank Levy, a urban studies professor at MIT, replies to Florida’s article. He sums up the labor evolutionary patterns very well: If a job can be fully expressed in rules—withdrawing money from a bank account or issuing an airline boarding pass—it can and will be programmed for a computer. If most of a job can be expressed in rules, the rules can be explained to someone in the Philippines who will do the job for much lower wages and so the job will move offshore. […]

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