Long Beach, CA – If you have not attended Adaptive Business Leaders annual presentation “Top Tech Trends” you should plan on it next January. This year was another stupendously insightful presentation on what we should expect from technology in the future and how it will impact our work and businesses. Here are a few choice highlights we need to prepare for:
· 50% of manufacturing jobs will be robotic by 2025, up from 10%
· 47% of US jobs will be computerized within two decades
· Five million jobs will be lost in the next five years, but two million new ones will be created.
It is said that more than half the kids in school today are getting educated for jobs that don’t yet exist. That is why this is a really important afternoon for me each year. I suggest you plan to attend next January. You can ask to be invited by calling Laura of ABL at 714/245-1427.
To view a portion of the slide deck from last week’s click here – Top Tech Trends
Technology is changing so fast. Know what is coming before you get run over by an Uber car.
Top Tech Trends will cut 5 million jobs, but create 2 million new ones.
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