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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by krupan on Sunday April 15, 2018 @12:55AM (#16841298)
Funny, I was talking to my parents recently about how they were told basically the same thing when I was in high school (let's just say over 20 years ago). "Your kids will have jobs that haven't even been invented yet!"

That turned out to be somewhat true, especially if you get really specific. I have worked on drone and SSD hardware, two things that didn't exist when I was in high school. In general though, that stuff is not that crazy and new, core math, electrical engineering, and software skills are still the same.

I suppose jobs like "self driving car backup driver" and "Bitcoin miner" are a little more out there :-)

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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by henrieri on Sunday April 15, 2018 @11:21AM (#16843010)
Coming from a long line of miner families from my father's side (my hundreds of times great great parents used to be dwarven miners some time before the defeat of the Sauron) I must say the concept of Bitcoin and gold mining are not that different. It is just the tools which have changed.
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