Bringing manufacturing back from China?

Is this really a realistic prospect? It turns out that yes it is, but it won’t be bringing jobs back with it… there will be some very highly skilled jobs, but the masses of blue collared jobs of old won’t be seen – automation will be the way it happens.

If we thought the divide between the haves and have-nots was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet. Our children are going to have to work harder than ever before in order to avoid falling into poverty – is our education system up to the challenge? How can children from less well-off backgrounds break free?

• Tim Cook says manufacturing might come back to the US, but robots will get the jobs (business insider)
• Adidas’s high-tech factory brings production back to Germany (The economist).