Reid Hoffman interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
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Argues that technology need not only boost productivity and cut jobs but can create local work by making markets for tasks and skills, citing mobile local-social apps like Gigwalk TaskRabbit and Coffee & Power as prototypes. Recommends scalable learning (a Khan Academy for entrepreneurship) and highlights a LinkedIn product, LinkedIn skills, for spotting growing skills. Notes the stark mismatch: about 14 million unemployed versus roughly 3 million openings.
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