Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
Well I teach technical topics, but I have to say the say we are doing it these days is wrong. I did not go for my masters till I had 10yrs industry experience. All that theory they pitch sounds good till it hits the wall of reality.
But we have not seen anything yet. There is an outfit in SF that has built a machine that can make 350 unique hamburgers/hr, custom order. McDonalds has implemented self order kiosks in europe and are trialing them here. Last I checked 0hrs x $15/hr = $0 pay. Self driving trucks are coming to an industry that employs 3m people long haul alone, possibly 6m total. A computerized AI anesthesiologist is being tested.
The point is pretty soon all that training will be for naught. Why spend some 10-12yrs of post secondary training when by the time you get thru with it you are obsolete? 4 year IT graduates are nearly half useless at the pace of change in that industry right now. Should the pace of change double again, what they learn as freshman will be useless and half of what they learned as a senior will be as well.
Jun 7, 2015, 10:10:49 PM