Running With Robots Av Greg Toppo, Jim Tracy

<b>How the technological changes that are reshaping the future of work will transform the American high school as well.</b><br><br>What will high school education look like in twenty years? High school students are educated today to take their places in a knowledge economy. But the knowledge economy, based on the assumption that information is a scarce and precious commodity, is giving way to an economy in which information is ubiquitous, digital, and machine-generated. In <i>Running with Robots</i>, Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy show how the technological advances that are already changing the world of work will transform the American high school as well.<br><br>Toppo and Tracy--a journalist and an education leader, respectively--look at developments in artificial intelligence and other fields that promise to bring us not only driverless cars but doctorless patients, lawyerless clients, and possibly even teacherless students. They visit schools from New York City to Iowa that have begun pr