We should stop using the term "highly skilled" when it really means "highly specialized". The trouble is we are still using school, from kindergarten to univer

We should stop using the term "highly skilled" when it really means "highly specialized". The trouble is we are still using school, from kindergarten to university (and beyond), as a system to turn people into highly specialized automatons. And the trouble with automatons is they get automated. A few have been lucky during the course of the industrial revolution to pick the right skill to specialize in, and at the right time, but examples abound when you pick the "wrong" specialization, just to see it subsequently automated. I never really understood what Buckminster Fuller was trying to get across in his Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, until recently. The amazing thing is he addressed these concerns quite presciently in the 1960s--he saw this coming. The only advice I can give is always be learning and adapting and apply it in creative and entrepreneurial ways.