Stephen Rose

Automation Nation? Exaggeration!

No, robots won’t cause mass unemployment. But our failure to prepare people for the high-end service economy could be a real disaster.

Is Growth Over?

Our phones get more powerful and our TVs bigger, but those improvements aren’t showing up economically. Is this permanent?

Nothing Like Being There

MOOCS and other forms of online education are useful, but college students learn as many useful skills outside the classroom as in it.