Paved With Fool’s Gold?
The director of research for Bell Laboratories envisions a world in which there will be a mass reduction of the labor force which, in turn, will create a culture of nomadic information workers who will carry their offices wherever their tasks will take them. “We are the first generation in human history where knowledge will change more than once in a lifetime. In the past, with each new generation, knowledge was gained and the torch was passed. What we havenÕt figured out yet is what happens when your knowledge becomes obsolete at age 38.”