TIKITU DE JAGER, a coder living in Greece, wanted to learn to program in iOS. So, like a lot of us do when we want to pick up a new skill, he started watching lessons online. At the outset everything was new, so he’d watch carefully and take notes. But as De Jager’s knowledge grew, he wanted to zip past familiar material. That’s when he started speeding up the videos. Now De Jager races along at 2X speed, slowing down only when he hits challenging stuff.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/learn-faster-by-speeding-up/

But for those suffering nostalgia for the ideal of secure, high-wage manufacturing in the rust belt – it's not going to happen. On one hand, manufacturing automation is not about to be reversed, while on the other, the US has lost the capability to feed, run and maintain many modern factories. The most commonly-given reason for Trump's "bringing the jobs back" chant being a lie is that most of the jobs weren't "stolen" by China and Mexico in the first place and they therefore can't be "brought back". There have been various studies attempting to allocate responsibility between automation and cheap foreign labour. The highest score I've seen for automation's role is a massive 85 per cent, as summarised by the Financial Times:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/unskilled-and-unable-why-donald-trumps-great-jobs-promise-is-a-lie-20170222-guijx3.html

START-ups with a great idea but which lack a technical founder on their team have found a new home in Adelaide’s Moonshine Laboratory. Spun out of Adelaide marketing agency The Distillery, Moonshine has already welcomed two start-ups into the fold and has another in talks. Distillery principal Jason Neave said the aim was to fill a niche in Adelaide, which had a suite of start-up accelerators and support programs, but not one for companies that did not have a technical co-founder — think a programmer or computer scientist capable of building the product.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/jobs/moonshine-laboratory-to-fill-a-gap-in-adelaides-start-up-ecosystem/news-story/f20dddc10681cf5aa750f3ba8ca33733

CSC Australia wins State Government contract, pledges 400 new jobs and Holden worker retraining. The new contract will also provide reskilling and job offers for up to 30 Holden workers, as the Elizabeth factory prepares for closure in October and the supply chain also shuts down.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/csc-australia-wins-5-million-state-government-contract-pledges-400-new-jobs-and-holden-worker-retraining/news-story/d79c2d87eac7d8028220e739c6d01de1