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2022 and the Jobs of Tomorrow
The revolution will be automated.
Predicting the future is for historical soothsayers and the modern era doomsday prophets on CNN, MSNBC and FOX news. For them, the sky is always falling; has been for years, decades- forever. What do they know anymore?
The scientific and technological advancements driving humanity forward have grown from significant breakthroughs happening every 10,000 years, to every 1,000, to every 100, to every 10, to an exponential rate of growth that defies any previous precedent in human history.
No one knows what is going to happen. Assuming humanity will stay on the same trajectory on which it currently finds itself is a mistake at this point. The species that spent tens of thousands of years doing nothing but subsistence farming has now split the atom, mapped the human genome, explored Mars, invented the fastest medium imaginable for sharing ideas- that magical elixir which has wrought so many changes for the better.
Preparing for the future, however, has become harder than ever. What student enrolling in college this year can say what sort of job market might be waiting in 5 years?
Futurists predict that as many as 70% of the jobs that currently exist in the U.S. won’t exist in ten years. It might even not be the jobs we think.