Change is coming, and I think it is a freight train of change coming our way in the form of technology. There will be winners and losers in the race to the future. One thing for sure is that education in the computer sciences will be a good thing to have moving forward.
See this
Governing magazine article,
Is Automation Anxiety All Hype?
One of the forecasts about robotics is that half of all work could be automated by 2055. This includes some "white collar" work in those numbers. As noted in the article, we are going to have to have a mixture of college education and technical training if our workforce is to be expected to keep up with the changes that are underway now.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
