https://michiganfuture.org/2010/02/apple-again/ A Catalyst for Prosperity Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://michiganfuture.org/2010/02/apple-again/#comment-258 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:37:52 +0000 https://www.michiganfuture.org/?p=834#comment-258 You mentioned that some manufacturing would remain in the United States, but would be done mostly by machines. Could some of those jobs evolve into the highly skilled variety requiring a college degree? In addition to the research and development, could we see a significant amount of manufacturing remain here if manufacturing workers became more educated and more productive. I could see highly automated factories, still producing large amounts of goods. But these factories would be staffed by much fewer workers most of whom would have degrees in engineering, operations management or computer science to enable them to use sophisticated, highly productive, computerised machinery. Manufacturing would no longer need large numbers of low skilled workers, but it would need a moderate number of highly educated knowledge workers.

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