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Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind
- cryptozeus 8y ago“Forget programming - the best skill to teach children is reinvention.”
- devoply 8y agoSounds like a platitude. A person can't reinvent themselves without many years of schooling. People have been beating the education drum as a path to salvation for as long as I can remember. Perhaps he's talking about reinventing the economy, which is done by businesses with lots of capital and massive failure rates. In either case he's not positing anything new or even all that useful. Just lamenting the new normal.
- cryptozeus 8y agoI disagree, he is making some interesting points under point 3. I think the though here is more about how to prepare for coming future and not really about what may actually happen. Its more real than predicting flying cars and human leaving for 200+ years.
- RajuVarghese 8y agoRealistically, things don't change around you in a matter of days. They usually take years. Harari is saying that you may need to jump ship several times in your life, dumping your past skills. You will need to retool and go into hitherto unfamiliar areas when the signs appear. Recognizing the signs is what one needs to learn.
- cryptozeus 8y agoRight. In adition the speed of change has also increased so earlier you could be in one job for 20 years doing the same thing but that is not going to be the case in future.