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“(…) Now, by my estimates, the half-life of a career is about 10 years(…) within a decade (…) five years. Advancing technologies will cause so much disruption to almost every industry that entire professions will disappear. (…)
Change is happening so fast that our children may not even need to learn how to drive. (…)
English, psychology, history, and arts majors have been at a financial disadvantage over the past few decades. Parents have encouraged their children to go into fields such as finance, engineering, law and medicine, because they’re where the big money has been. But that is changing.(…) . It doesn’t matter whether they want to be artists, musicians, or plumbers; the key is for children to understand that education is a lifelong endeavor and to be ready to constantly reinvent themselves.
We will all need to be able to learn new skills, think critically, master new careers, and take advantage of the best opportunities that come our way.
Technology is now as important a skill as are reading, writing, and mathematics. (…)
But this too is changing (…) design and the soft sciences will gain increasing importance.
(…) Education will always be a platform on which to build success, but it really doesn’t matter what you study. (…) ” Read full story