Every major shift WAS different from the one before.
What's DOUBLY different about this time is that this time we are not moving from skill to skill, we are moving from unskilled to something.
I truly despise the idea that there are no unskilled jobs because it is not just false, it's a counterproductive argument. All of us who have worked a variety of jobs know that some jobs require both talent and education, and others require mostly just a pulse and respiration. But people who work both kinds of jobs have essentially the same needs.