Future Skills and Education in a Computerized World
Future Skills and Education in a Computerized World

Summary/Abstract: As computerization of Western economies has advanced, the supply of the demandfor routine cognitive tasks and routine manual tasks has fallen. Computerization has increasedlabour input of nonroutine cognitive tasks which has favourized high educated workers.Similarly, there is clear evidence of an increase in demand for high skilled workforce whichoriginates from poor machine performance of nonroutine manual tasks. Given the latesttechnological development, such skills as critical thinking, complex cognitive skills and novelideation are those areas where people still outperform computers today. In Poland, a declinein demand for tertiary education has been observed during the recent years notwithstandinggood returns to investment in education that are the highest among the OECD countries. Thequestion is, what should the role of tertiary education be in the automatized world? How todevelop or educate those skills in which people excel computers given mass education? Thepurpose of this article is to highlight demand for future skills in regard to actual technologicalchanges and to present chosen macroeconomic data that characterizes the situation of tertiaryeducation with a focus on Poland. Finally, a suggestion for further research is presented.

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