Davos Annual Meeting 2011 - The Future of Employment

http://www.weforum.org/ 26.01.2011

The Future of Employment

The world economy has haemorrhaged more than 30 million jobs since 2007, three-quarters of them lost from advanced economies. Slow job growth is seen as the weakest link in the global recovery, challenging both developed and emerging economies.

In partnership with the World Economic Forum, CNBC hosts this debate focusing on what business, education and government must do to boost employment.

- Adi B. Godrej, Chairman, The Godrej Group, Godrej Industries, India
- Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor- in-Chief, Huffington Post, USA
- Philip J. Jennings, General Secretary, UNI Global Union, Switzerland
- Naveen Jindal, Executive Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Jindal Steel and Power, India; Young Global Leader
- Jeffrey Joerres, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Manpower, USA
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon, India
- Barry Silbert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SecondMarket, USA; Technology Pioneer

Moderated by
- Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, CNBC's Closing Bell; Host and Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC, USA; Young Global Leader; Global Agenda Council on Systemic Financial Risk

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• World Economic Forum
• WEF
• Annual Meeting
• Davos
• 2011
• CNBC
• Future
• Employment

[rewtnode]

So annoying to listen to most of them (apart from Mario front right perhaps) how their emphasis mainly is on milking societies and on creaming off the top of the education system. Basically they are all complaining that the education systems aren't efficient enough for their needs. Of course, they discover a lot of actual problems, but their explanations self serving and their fixes not useful for the needs of the majority of people. All teachers of NY earn as much as 25 top Hedgefund managers.

[n4979338]

Technology is causing this enormous shift, wikis will extend their reach to things like design and manufacturing soon enough, robotics, AI, biotech etc, are going to detonate the thinking in this video.

Oh and the education system is really out of date, work experience and interactive technological learning are much cheaper and better ways of learning. students are slave labour anyway, they shold be engaged in productive activities.

[n4979338]

jobs not be needed in the future:

radiographic equipment could be operated DIY, better cheaper machines with artificial intelligence - I can just indicate shoulder scan or body scan no radiographer req.

Surgeons, still needed but, first simple operations done only by robots performed this year,

Media - self organising wikis and ai will provide better news services

Media - It is possible to transfer all the movies, books, tv shows, music ever made to an mass storage device very quickly

[n4979338]

Nobody seems to realize that while many jobs of the west have been and are still being consumed by Asia, HOWEVER, western jobs are being progressively replaced by technology and this is accelerating. A large proportion of the jobs currently in existence are currently empty shells, service jobs just guaranteed by the regulatory state. Eg: 90% of the time I don't need to see my doctor, he has a monopoly on writing scripts and taking swabs, I don't need the radiographer for a scan.......

[urswaefler]

I think, JANZZ.com contributes in solving this problem. This web 3.0 platform has implemented the core of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences of the year 2010.

[mandy8088]

longest video i ever seen

[eallen9977]

The future of employment according to the world economic forum...

[thalesdotnet]

who give a fuck?

[mrklr1]

this is bullshit certain people have a monoply jobs that perform services , and you have people 40 plus who are shoved into jobs that don't pay enough to eat. And if you don't find a way to change the lives of the parents and have them value education,then there children won't either.Schools have gotten into the business of lying about test scores look good .and the children suffer

[LightCyrus]

The only people who ever get a major say in what's happening and what will happen..our plans for the future...are Corporation CEO's and owners. The day that the people rise and say, "Enough struggle, now is the time for you all to forfit a percentage of the many millions you earn each year to donate both to education systems and to funding for aspiring young people to attend them.