What a crock.
That will be good for THOSE people. Where I live, there are a lot of white young men whose dads used to grow stuff or make stuff. The ones who CAN'T "understand and use information" are about 75%, and if they have no work, they do meth and heroin and commit petty crimes.
If we keep growing THAT population, it won't matter how cheap sh*t is at WalMart.
And if your answer is "education", save it. The average working guy is what he is. For the smart ones (25%), there's more education than they know what to do with. For the rest, there's nothing past 10th grade that's worth doing.
I was merely expounding on Pietro’s “new economy based on information” idea; how it might come about.
Education would be good... if it really were education and not indoctrination/conformance-manipulation — but it’s not, so it’s really a moot point.
Let's not forget people who can COLLECT information, which can be done by less educated people.
We need to produce a product that is less likely to be outsourced and that is to gather, analyze, and produce local usable data for marketing and distributing outsourced products (i.e. geographic and census data as one example).