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Embrace change to stay relevant
These days, you might read articles more often on a smartphone or a laptop instead of in a newspaper. We wrote this article via WhatsApp and email over several days and across several time zones.
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Indonesia with its high proportion of youth, home to 66 million young people between the ages of 10 and 24 years, will soon be in an unprecedented position to harness its demographic dividend and accelerate economic progress. (Shutterstock/File)
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hese days, you might read articles more often on a smartphone or a laptop instead of in a newspaper. We wrote this article via WhatsApp and email over several days and across several time zones.
Technology has enabled new and exciting ways of working and sharing, promising ever more collaborations and other activities that would have been considered magic several decades ago.
In a few decades, we will see even more exciting and magical innovations — renewable energies to reduce pollution, eco-friendly materials to replace plastics and autonomous cars to lighten commutes — that will transform society and enable us to live our lives with more ease.
It is indeed an exciting time, but concerns are growing as to whether these new technologies will create enough jobs in the future. In 2017, McKinsey & Company reported that up to 800 million individual jobs would be automated by 2030. However, in referring to history, it also reported that people and the labor market would adjust, and we could expect up to 9 percent of new occupations that did not exist before.
