Knowledge Technologist

This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers. . . . the most striking growth will be in “knowledge technologists”: . . .  paralegals. These people are as much manual workers as they are knowledge workers; in fact, they usually spend far more time working with their hands than with their brains. But their manual work is based on a substantial amount of theoretical knowledge which can be acquired only through formal education, not through an apprenticeship. . . .  Just as unskilled manual workers in manufacturing were the dominant social and political force in the 20th century, knowledge technologists are likely to become the dominant social—-and perhaps also political—-force over the next decades.

Peter F. Drucker–“The next society” Economist.com (November 2001)