How the technological changes that are reshaping the future of work will transform the American high school as well.

What will high school education look like in twenty years? High school students are educated today to take their places in a knowledge economy. But the knowledge economy, based on the assumption that information is a scarce and precious commodity, is giving way to an economy in which information is ubiquitous, digital, and machine-generated. In Running with Robots, Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy show how the technological advances that are already changing the world of work will transform the American high school as well.

Toppo and Tracy--a journalist and an education leader, respectively--look at developments in artificial intelligence and other fields that promise to bring us not only driverless cars but doctorless patients, lawyerless clients, and possibly even teacherless students. They visit schools from New York City to Iowa that have begun preparing for this new world. Toppo and Tracy intersperse these reports from the present with bulletins from the future, telling the story of a high school principal who, Rip Van Winkle-style, sleeps for twenty years and, upon awakening in 2040, can hardly believe his eyes: the principal's amazingly efficient assistant is a robot, calculation is outsourced to computers, and students, grouped by competence and not grade level, focus on the conceptual. The lesson to be learned from both the present and the book's thought-experiment future: human and robotic skillsets are complementary, not in competition. We can run with robots, not against them.

正在重塑未来工作的技术变化如何也会改变美国的高中。

二十年后的高中教育会是什么样子？今天，高中生接受教育是为了在知识经济中占有一席之地。但是，基于信息是一种稀缺和珍贵的商品这一假设的知识经济，正在让位于一个信息无处不在、数字化和机器生成的经济。在《与机器人赛跑》中，Greg Toppo和Jim Tracy展示了已经在改变工作世界的技术进步将如何改变美国的中学。

Toppo和Tracy分别是记者和教育领导者，他们关注人工智能和其他领域的发展，这些发展不仅会给我们带来无人驾驶的汽车，还会带来无人问津的病人，无人问津的律师，甚至可能带来无人问津的学生。他们访问了从纽约市到爱荷华州的学校，这些学校已经开始为这个新世界做准备。Toppo和Tracy将这些来自现在的报告与来自未来的公告穿插在一起，讲述了一个高中校长的故事，他像Rip Van Winkle一样，睡了20年，当他在2040年醒来时，几乎不敢相信自己的眼睛：校长那效率惊人的助手是一个机器人，计算被外包给计算机，学生按能力而不是年级分组，专注于概念。从现在和书中的思想实验的未来中可以学到的教训：人类和机器人的技能组合是互补的，而不是竞争。我们可以与机器人一起运行，而不是与它们对抗。