The original author lists companies that didn't exist prior to the rise of the personal computer (CompUSA? Circuit City?). If you'd taken an employee from 2009 and brought them back to 1970, their job literally wouldn't have existed. How about everyone working for AT&T Wireless, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile? Where was the cell phone industry in 1990? 1980?
Who in their right mind is going to tell you they're going to be employed by something that doesn't yet exist?
It's hard to look at the world today and see how the status quo projects forward. But if you don't mind wild ideas (personal computers! portable phones!) and can wait a decade, maybe things don't look so bad.
Counterpoint: What do I do during that decade?
*Creativity exercise: think of some things. What if we replaced massive power plants with massive amounts of tiny generators (wind, solar, water)? Who would install, build and maintain them? What would happen if we switched cars from gas to natural gas? What would happen to the money spent fighting cancer if a preventative therapy could be developed? What if we switched from batteries to capacitors?
Who in their right mind is going to tell you they're going to be employed by something that doesn't yet exist?
It's hard to look at the world today and see how the status quo projects forward. But if you don't mind wild ideas (personal computers! portable phones!) and can wait a decade, maybe things don't look so bad.
Counterpoint: What do I do during that decade?
*Creativity exercise: think of some things. What if we replaced massive power plants with massive amounts of tiny generators (wind, solar, water)? Who would install, build and maintain them? What would happen if we switched cars from gas to natural gas? What would happen to the money spent fighting cancer if a preventative therapy could be developed? What if we switched from batteries to capacitors?