Almost half of U.S. jobs could be replaced by the computer in 20 years

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization

A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify the extent of that threat. It concludes that 45 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being taken by computers within the next two decades.

Our incoming kindergarteners will be facing this world by the time they are 25.