"It is not just us. No country on Earth is ready for the coming changes. With 2026 being less than 100 days away, we all need to buckle up and hold on tight. If you have kids in school, ask your school board what they are doing to prepare for this massive change. However, don't expect a cogent answer - expect to hear only crickets."
Dizzying. That is the word I heard the other day. In what context? The future. Specifically (if you believe most futurists), the future starting in just over two months. In 2026. The year all the prep to changes we have been seeing, starts to go into motion. Are we ready for this cascade of changes coming at us? Unfortunately, many will not be. This will be Future Shock, live and in color.
I watched an article a few days ago on YouTube. It was put on by a noted futurist and was about the future of employment by 2030 (four short years away). It was bleak. So many jobs, will be going bye-bye. Not to illegal immigrants. Not offshore. Some new jobs will be created to meet the new AI economy. But many existing jobs will be sucked up by AI and robots. And this reality will fall on many people like a ton of bricks.
This is why I listen with a tin ear and watch with a jaundiced eye when the "new jobs" issue is discussed on the news. The "new jobs" coming back onshore from yesterday's industries. Many of those "new jobs" will be sucked up by AI and robotics. Don't think so? Check out the Tesla gigafactory in Texas. Lots and lots of automation, with very few humans doing touch labor. What is a result of this automation? Elon thinks he will have a "basic" Tesla to sell in the $16k range. Wow! That would be like going back to the 1980's!
One article I recently read had a real nugget in it. As far as employment going forward, if your job is unskilled or repetitive, it probably is going to be one of the first to leave and be done by automation. And then what? With our education system failing, and half the kids can't read at grade level, what will the newly unemployed going to do? If we don't start thinking and planning (like yesterday), the coming automation will be a huge shock to many young folks. They will have no place to turn, no place to go.
One final thing. It won't be AI nor robotics which will be the major change agents going forward. It will be quantum computing. Right now, the Google Willow platform, using quantum computing, can solve issues in minutes which a supercomputer would need thousands of years to solve. And right now, we are in the "baby step" stage of understanding just how powerful these "spooky" computers can be. What will AI hosted in a quantum computer in 2030 be like? I shudder to think.
It is not just us. No country on Earth is ready for the coming changes. With 2026 being less than 100 days away, we all need to buckle up and hold on tight. If you have kids in school, ask your school board what they are doing to prepare for this massive change. However, don't expect a cogent answer - expect to hear only crickets.
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