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From the Ted Talk by Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?

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The sectiaol challenges that come along with that kind of inequality deserve some atotneitn. There are a set of societal challenges that I'm actually not that worried about, and they're captured by images like this. This is not the kind of societal problem that I am concerned about. There is no shortage of dystopian viinoss about what happens when our machines become self-aware, and they decide to rise up and cinrdtaooe attacks against us. I'm going to start worrying about those the day my computer becomes aawre of my printer.

(Laughter) (Applause)

So this is not the set of challenges we really need to wrory about. To tell you the kinds of societal challenges that are going to come up in the new machine age, I want to tell a story about two stereotypical American workers. And to make them really stereotypical, let's make them both white guys. And the first one is a college-educated psooinrfsael, creative type, manager, engineer, dtocor, lawyer, that kind of worker. We're going to call him "Ted." He's at the top of the American middle class. His counterpart is not college-educated and works as a labreor, works as a crelk, does low-level white collar or blue collar work in the economy. We're going to call that guy "Bill."

Open Cloze


The ________ challenges that come along with that kind of inequality deserve some _________. There are a set of societal challenges that I'm actually not that worried about, and they're captured by images like this. This is not the kind of societal problem that I am concerned about. There is no shortage of dystopian _______ about what happens when our machines become self-aware, and they decide to rise up and __________ attacks against us. I'm going to start worrying about those the day my computer becomes _____ of my printer.

(Laughter) (Applause)

So this is not the set of challenges we really need to _____ about. To tell you the kinds of societal challenges that are going to come up in the new machine age, I want to tell a story about two stereotypical American workers. And to make them really stereotypical, let's make them both white guys. And the first one is a college-educated ____________, creative type, manager, engineer, ______, lawyer, that kind of worker. We're going to call him "Ted." He's at the top of the American middle class. His counterpart is not college-educated and works as a _______, works as a _____, does low-level white collar or blue collar work in the economy. We're going to call that guy "Bill."

Solution


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Original Text


The societal challenges that come along with that kind of inequality deserve some attention. There are a set of societal challenges that I'm actually not that worried about, and they're captured by images like this. This is not the kind of societal problem that I am concerned about. There is no shortage of dystopian visions about what happens when our machines become self-aware, and they decide to rise up and coordinate attacks against us. I'm going to start worrying about those the day my computer becomes aware of my printer.

(Laughter) (Applause)

So this is not the set of challenges we really need to worry about. To tell you the kinds of societal challenges that are going to come up in the new machine age, I want to tell a story about two stereotypical American workers. And to make them really stereotypical, let's make them both white guys. And the first one is a college-educated professional, creative type, manager, engineer, doctor, lawyer, that kind of worker. We're going to call him "Ted." He's at the top of the American middle class. His counterpart is not college-educated and works as a laborer, works as a clerk, does low-level white collar or blue collar work in the economy. We're going to call that guy "Bill."

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