Preparing For Your ‘Augmented’ Workforce

I've always been interested in Ray Kurzweil's concept of singularity—that superior man/machine merger (see The Man-Machine Boundary Continues To Fade and We'll Accept Robots As Human - And Become Immortal As Human-Machines). In a recent presentation, he predicted the date for this convergence as 2045 (see Kurzweil Claims That The Singularity Will Happen By 2045).

2045 may seem too far in the future for consideration in your next strategic plan, but there are projections that in the next 12 years (by 2030), 38% of job holders in the United States will be replaced by . . .