With the increased casualisation of the workforce intersecting with
broadband mobile social networks, contractors for small to medium
businesses will be picking up skills 'on the fly' using their phones
and global links. Literacy and numeracy will become even less relevant
than they are even today. Mobile devices will not only be used for
simple calculation, but for OCR and reading too:
http://www.knfbreader.com/products-mobile.php People with the most
charisma and the best skills at making-it-up-as-they-go-along will be
the (temporary) employees of choice. We could well be heading for the
wuffie driven world painted by Cory in his magic kingdom:
http://craphound.com/down/download.php
Meanwhile, in a frenzy of denial, the current bastions of education
will cozy up ever closer with big business to ensure that there are
plenty of replaceable workers that can operate within corporate walled
gardens, creating and consuming in-house documentation to fulfill
their mission-critical day-to-day tasks - secure in the knowledge that
since they're the only ones licensed to bestow degrees, they are also
the only ones that can accurately determine the content of these
courses.
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