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For example, he cites a National Science Board study that shows that of the 19.5 million STEM degree holders, only 5.4 million actually work in those fields.

The precariat, including STEM workers, are losing control over their time and the use of their capabilities, which represents a different situation than what the proletariat faced 150 years ago. Standing writes, that “the precariat has distinctive relations of production, or labour relations they [flit] in and out of jobs, often with incomplete contracts or forced into indirect labour relationships via agencies or brokers.” In essence, the precariat can be seen largely as a class of contingent workers regardless of education level.

Over the next 20 years software will be embedded in everything, from refrigerators to cars to medical devices.Without the Freedom to Tinker, the right to reverse engineer these products, we will be living in a world of opaque black boxes.

In the next 20 years we need to get ready to smash the Internet apart and build something new and better.

for both pedagogical reasons and in the cause of self preservation faculty should preemptively adapt useful, low or no-cost education technologies which only they can control.