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How to Make Your Job Future Proof
Don’t compete with the machines or you’ll lose
I know you’ve heard this before — flying cars, the paperless office, nuclear fusion, intergalactic traveling — and you’ve become skeptical of all these promises that never materialize. But one thing is clear: big changes are coming and this time is for real.
The future is exponential
Certain technologies have an incubation period of 10–20 years. During that period, progress is not apparent, nor useful, but then, all of a sudden, the growth curve becomes exponential and mass adoption becomes a reality.
We’ve seen all this before with the internet, cellphones, and video on demand. The difference is, now, the incubation period is shorter and the exponential growth stepper.
We live in an era of acceleration in which changes are becoming faster and more disruptive.
In fact, very often technology is ready, but regulations and public perception are not. This is happening with pilotless planes and self-driving cars for example.
Combining new technologies
Disruptive changes often come from a combination of existing or emerging technologies. Take self-driving cars, for instance, they combine electric cars, 3D vision, AI, the cloud, Lidar…