Slightly intrigued why (you think) we don't need graduates
Is this going to be like us not needing people who can type in the 1970s? "Not everybody's going to be a secretary dear, you won't need that skill".
So far the trend for our society (and not just "in Britain") is toward not just mechanisation but automation. Supposing we believe the anthropologists* that a nomad hunter/gatherer society is a highly skilled population then we're the far side of the curve. We're past the point where innovations eliminate mostly unskilled labour, and onto eliminating semi-skilled and skilled jobs.
On the early railways you'd have five men on a train of just a few hundred passengers, plus a signalman every few miles. Today it's two men on the train, up to about 1000 passengers, plus one guy sat at a desk controlling signals for hundreds of miles. But, Siemens has some jobs for graduate electronics engineers to design the next generation Eurobalise compatible ATP system.
* My dysnomia is getting worse, it took two Google searches to find that word, even though I used it conversationally yesterday.
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Date: 2010-07-19 09:36 am (UTC)Is this going to be like us not needing people who can type in the 1970s? "Not everybody's going to be a secretary dear, you won't need that skill".
So far the trend for our society (and not just "in Britain") is toward not just mechanisation but automation. Supposing we believe the anthropologists* that a nomad hunter/gatherer society is a highly skilled population then we're the far side of the curve. We're past the point where innovations eliminate mostly unskilled labour, and onto eliminating semi-skilled and skilled jobs.
On the early railways you'd have five men on a train of just a few hundred passengers, plus a signalman every few miles. Today it's two men on the train, up to about 1000 passengers, plus one guy sat at a desk controlling signals for hundreds of miles. But, Siemens has some jobs for graduate electronics engineers to design the next generation Eurobalise compatible ATP system.
* My dysnomia is getting worse, it took two Google searches to find that word, even though I used it conversationally yesterday.