John Hagel: There are multiple measures of the increasing pressure on companies, but I think it's also on us as individuals.
There is an interesting billboard here in Silicon Valley which asks the simple question:
"How does it feel to know that there are at least one million people around the world who can do your job?"
And that would have been a ridiculous question twenty, thirty years ago, but actually, not so ridiculous today.
You would have responded: "Well, I'm here, they're there, it doesn't matter." Well now, actually, it does.
And now the billboard - this was a few years ago - the billboard would say: "How does it feel to know there are at least one million robots who can do your job?"
Pradeep Khosla: I actually do feel, in fact I do believe, that education is the key.
It's not clear to me that the type of education we have right now is the key, but to say "Not being educated is the key" would be a mistake.
Astro Teller: Figuring out a way that we can educate the world's population so they can all be useful in the 21st Century -
We're clearly not set up to do that, that is sort of mission critical for our society.
Monique Morrow: I don't think technology is going to solve jobs, I think it will be an enabler for jobs.
We have to think about being very very dynamic in the development of skills.
Sandeep Sander: I think we need a clear statement that people can work from and benefit from.
And I think that statement could be something like: "Outperform your potential."
How can we enable people to perform even better than they thought they could?
Monique Morrow: Let's take a profile of an individual who hasn't gone to college, who hasn't gone to high school.
But maybe, you're given an opportunity to be an apprentice and be paid for it at the same time.
Sandeep Sander: What we need to do is to focus on how can we get people to develop the ability to not only execute a job but also to get the next job.
I think that we need to do this in a way where we're not waiting for the politicians or waiting for the public administration,
but trying to create something that supplements whatever they are doing.
Steve Jurvetson: By some estimates, twenty percent of labor on the planet involves driving,
you know, for other people, whether it's cargo or passengers. And they're all going to go away.
All those jobs are gone forever, they are not coming back.
Maybe either government agents, policymakers who see this problem coming, or entrepreneurs who see an opportunity say:
"I know how to off-board all these people. I'm going to offer the following training program,
where I assume all you know how to do is drive and interact with customers, and you're trustworthy,
because you've proven it with your accredited Uber time. I'm going to offer you something." I don't know what that is.
But, I train you for X period of time and I get Y back.
My business school was paid for with a loan that I had to pay immediately back if I didn't go back to the employer. So I've been through that myself.
Things like that could crop up if there is....
...if there is something to go to.
Vint Cerf: Opportunities for people to discover each other and their common interests - that sometimes is the key to new creativity.
The patron notion, which we saw in the Medici [family] during the renaissance period,
is one way of causing these good things to happen. But it would be better if everyone were empowered to do those things, were enabled.
The difference here is that you should be able to choose yourself to do those things, as opposed to having to hope you can convince someone else to let you do it.
Sandeep Sander: If we all try to either coach someone or accept to be coached, we can share the knowledge in different areas,
and in this way, not only improve our own employability but also for the society make sure that we make a contribution.
And what the society can do is to try to create an ecosystem where all the different players and parties try to make a contribution enabling the individual.
So it is also a matter of ambitions. We have to be more ambitious.
If we put all our energy together, and try to look not only 'what' but also the 'how,' there's a pretty good chance that we can make a difference.