One needs to implement life long learning! We are working in a field where there is exponential growth in computing, networking and storage and what computers c

One needs to implement life long learning! We are working in a field where there is exponential growth in computing, networking and storage and what computers can do. The robot automation artificial intelligence age are coming! Ordering food will be automated, cooking food will be automated, the post office will be automated. Shopping will to a large extent be automated, there will be 3D models of your body captured by your cell phone or 3D scanner booth. When you enter the shopping mart of the future, the food will come to you, you will not pick it up unless you want to. Why use a shopping cart when you can have a robotic picker do the work for you? That said I see different things in different people getting older. Some people like life long learning, they will not have an issue finding jobs. Some people stagnate in their internal development after college, they use the same programming languages and tools as they did several years back. They are probably more in danger of getting obsolete by new tech. I think there is danger in your career path if you stagnate as a growth as a person. This will get worse the older you get unless you change. With years of experience you will also realize that there is fashion in programmer tool chains, it's not necessarily that Javascript is better than say Ruby or Python but it sure is in fashion. Same can be said about NoSQL tech such as MongoDB it is not per say better than sharded MySQL and Postgres but you should still learn it because your younger peers will like it. I like to learn new stuff so I follow along. This also covers fashion in Javascript libraries such as AngularJS and React, there will something greener in the library field down the line I'm sure of it. Love to learn! If programming is anything like martial arts you will just get better and more skilled with age, take and go the new tech coming in.