Our parents might have had it harder in terms of standards of living. No air conditioning (or perhaps inefficient cooling), noisier vehicles, no trains to take us around, less shopping malls, no electronics, terrible television quality...
But somehow they had it better too. Everything was more predictable. Change was slow. Communication was slow, but we saw each other more often. Graduating from university was a big event, and your career was made out from then on.
Life wasn't easy, but it was easy to plan.
Now, we think of the knowledge economy, the digital economy. Basically it means - we know too much, yet we think too slow in comparison to the myriad of computers making calculations every millisecond, on stocks, on the value of currency, of businesses - by the time we graduate - knowledge is made obsolete.
And this is reason to be afraid.
But even more reason to dream big.
But somehow they had it better too. Everything was more predictable. Change was slow. Communication was slow, but we saw each other more often. Graduating from university was a big event, and your career was made out from then on.
Life wasn't easy, but it was easy to plan.
Now, we think of the knowledge economy, the digital economy. Basically it means - we know too much, yet we think too slow in comparison to the myriad of computers making calculations every millisecond, on stocks, on the value of currency, of businesses - by the time we graduate - knowledge is made obsolete.
And this is reason to be afraid.
But even more reason to dream big.
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