Love of learning is the key to success in the jobless future - Chicago Daily Herald
-- Not long ago, schoolchildren chose what they wanted to be when they grew up, and later selected the best college they could gain admission to, spent years gaining proficiency in their fields, and joined a company that had a need for their skills. Now, by my estimates, the half-life of a career is about 10 years. And then, in about 15-20 years from now, we will be facing a jobless future, in which most jobs are done by machines and the cost of basic necessities such as food, energy and health care is negligible -- just as the costs of cellphone... Change is happening so fast that our children may not even need to learn how to drive. By the late 2020s, self-driving cars will have proved to be so much safer than human-driven ones that we will be debating whether humans should be banned from public roads. and clean energies such as solar and wind will be able to provide for 100 percent of the planet's energy needs and cost a fraction of what fossil fuel_ and nuclear-based generation does today. A question that parents often ask me is, given that these predictions are even remotely accurate, what careers their children should pursue: whether it is best to steer them into science, engineering, and technology (STEM) fields, because it is... The STEM-humanities dichotomy has been a traditional difficulty for parents, because English, psychology, history and arts majors have been at a financial disadvantage over the. Source: www.dailyherald.com
