Mark Cuban, a billionaire investor recently said
something I have thought for some time was true. That is, the future
for young students may not be in studying technological courses, but
instead, majoring in liberal arts. He said that in the next 10 years
there will be more demand for liberal arts graduates than will be for
programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data
that is everywhere today is being spit out, options are also being
spit out that need a different perspective in order to have a different
view of the data. And so having someone who can write and express him
or herself beyond Twitter language mode and who is more of a freer
thinker is going to be the greatest need.
Cuban is referencing the so called "soft skills' that today are looked
upon with derision by those who think their latest cell phone app or
whatever new technology they lust over is the core of humanity. Soft
skills like adaptability and communication, will have the advantage in
an automated workforce. Cuban said English literature, philosophy, and
foreign language majors as just some of the majors that will do well in
the future job market. "The nature of jobs is changing," Cuban said.
Yes, but will humans who are addicted to time wasting, silly technology
change fast enough to meet the coming demands?
So creativity and the ability to communicate clearly (that means none
of the idiotic nerd language we are force fed and rarely are able to
understand when we use technology today) will return to style. Thank
God for that! Linguistic and cultural literature today is abysmal. The
liberal arts curriculum teaches one how to think, not what to think. Is
that not what the deepest learning is about? Already, throughout the
major U.S. tech hubs, whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston or
Austin, Tex., software companies are using more and more liberal art
grads to create the ideas that male all that technology seem usable
and desirable.
Gee, now I think I am glad that I am a Luddite in a technological world.
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