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SUMMARY: Part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman has been showcasing the future of technology from a recent conference run by a California think tank -- things such as 3-D printing of prosthetic legs and iPhone heart tests. But the conference also resurfaced an age-old question about the future of human workers.
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VIVEK WADHWA, Singularity University: One of the problems in America is that we believe that education ends when you graduate from college. Wrong. In the new world, in the new era of technology, we're going to have to realize that education begins when you graduate, when you join the work force.
We have to keep our skills current. We have to keep learning. We have to keep adapting to technology. That's how we're going to create employment.
PAUL SOLMAN (Newshour): Co-founder Gabriel Adauto worries not about putting teachers out of work, but about getting their digitally undereducated students into the game.
GABRIEL ADAUTO, co-founder, Motion Math: The digital divide is a big problem. Although national unemployment is high, we're having trouble finding the engineers we need in our small company.
PAUL SOLMAN: And those engineers, says partner Jacob Klein, will be part of the Motion Math mission.
JACOB KLEIN, Motion Math: The kids who play our games are going to have better math skills, they're going to be more likely to master engineering skills that will make them employable in the future. It's a long-term strategy, but I think creating better science, technology, engineering, math education is really the route of solving the digital divide.
VIVEK WADHWA: Right now, the apps economy, building up the applications for devices like this (SmartPhones, etc.), employs half-a-million Americans. It came out of nowhere. So what's going to happen is that the convergence of these technologies will create jobs in areas we can't even think of.
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