“Rapid and accelerating digitization is likely to bring economic rather than environmental disruption, stemming from the fact that as computers get more powerful, companies have less need for some kind of workers. Technological progress is going to leave behind some people, as it races ahead. … [T]here’s never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the right education, because those people can use technology to create and capture value. However, there’s never been a worse time to be a worker with only ‘ordinary’ skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots, and other digital technologies are acquiring these skills and abilities as an extraordinary rate.” – Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age, pp. 10-11.
College-bound students often get caught up in the wrong thing. They get so focused on choosing the ‘right’ college that they miss the big picture. They think the degree will create opportunities. They forget it’s what they know and can do that will count the most. And graduating with a college degree at some of our colleges and universities offers little assurance you’ve learned the right things, acquired the right skills, gained the right experience, or honed and nurtured the right abilities. Continue reading
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