It's Only the Beginning – Joe Schoendorf
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Prediction: society is replacing labor with capital via machines, robots, printers, software and chips, not just automating tasks. Mobile adoption is still early — the iPhone era took years to hit a billion and half the world isn't connected. Examples: Ethernet and CD adoption both surprised in scale and timing; GE redesigns a refrigerator, cutting assembly from 40 hours to 4 hours, enabling local same‑day production instead of low‑wage outsourcing and creating a massive labor transition challenge.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48Antarctic trip and next big thing
- 3:13Technology replacing labor
- 6:08Tech change pace
- 7:30Manufacturing job myth
- 9:20Same day production
- 10:49Workers in information age
- 11:52Biggest challenge
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