Originally Posted by Val
Yes, of course...and if we end up hunting cows with spears and using smoke signals to communicate, we definitely won't need people who understand math.

Articles such as

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-global-industry.html
Skilled Work, Without the Worker
By JOHN MARKOFF
New York Times
August 18, 2012

suggest that the future belongs to people who have the ability to do things such as program a robot, but I am not optimistic that a much larger fraction of people in the U.S. can be educated to this level than are currently.