This week's assignments were pretty fun. I really liked looking into Hitwise and I think that the company has a gold mine at its hands. Tancer's company is great because of the vast amount of knowledge that can be generated. It would be nice if there was some sort of free company out there that provided information to educators on the different types of information relating to statistics on student search engines.
The other portion of the assignments that I really liked was the futuristic job portions. Jobs are going to continue to change dramatically over the coming years and it will be hard to determine to the different fields that are going to be adding new careers. There are statistics out there that kids growing up today will have 10-14 careers by the time they are in their 30's. That is insane. I don't know which avenue we are going to be going in future fields, but I know they will all predominately relate to technology with most manufacturing jobs being outsource to more lower paying countries. This will cause a huge backlog of workers and we are going to see a huge influx of elderly individuals heading back to the college ranks.
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It really is fun to play futurist. If you store your predictions somewhere safe and remember to look at them in a few years you can see how on target you were.
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