Brave new world (Score 1)

The one edge we don't ever want to lose (or can afford to lose) is our creative R&D edge. And we have to apply those skills now to figuring out what we're going to do with low skill, low intelligence workers as robotics and automation take over more and more mundane tasks. Technology has always moved faster than our abilities to adequately cope with it and these days it moves at lightening speed. Another new age dawns and we should have started preparing ourselves for it long before this. One of the first steps and one that can be accomplished quickly if we can find the political will to do it is a complete overhaul of immigration policy (no more mass immigration of the unskilled and uneducated needing jobs that won't exist anymore). Necessary also is a complete overhaul of the public education system which as it stands is inadequate to our needs today never mind our future needs. Accomplishing that one will require people who are in no way beholden to the education unions and able to withstand the assault such reforms will bring on them.