9/7/2023 0 Comments Mediatemple ftp filezilla![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a longer search for the stat (and I would recommend people listen to the BBC report or read Old’s blog post on the myth), but the TL DR is that it’s essentially urban legend. ![]() Even more bizarre, the Australian government told BBC that they could no reference to neither the Australian Innovation Council nor the paper she was referencing. ![]() According to Davidson, she was citing an Australian Innovation Council study on the future of work, though she also claims that the council and subsequent website where the study was located, no longer exist. His analysis, which Iines up with my timeline, is that a 2011 book published by Cathy Davidson called Now You See It, cited the statistic, which was then was quoted and mass circulated by a New York Times article (he doesn’t say which one, but I’m guessing this opinion piece titled Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade). I found a 2017 BBC World Business Report that searched for the original source, and through the comments of Andrew Old, I think I’ve pieced back together what was likely happening when I was ruminating on this event in 2012. I remember at the time being captivated (naïvely) by the statement that, “65% of children entering primary schools today will ultimately work in new job types and functions that currently don’t yet exist.” Where did that number come from? And, maybe more importantly, where had I heard it?Īs it turns out, the source of this stat is a common friction point. I wrote the tagline, “Prepare yourself for a dramatically different work environment by learning from the young leaders who are creating it.” I was just getting my WordPress designer sea legs under me, and was pretty enthralled with the idea of the “one-pager.” The title for the event was “The Now and the Next” and it was about engaging early career top talent, many of whom where startup CEOs, with current students. In 2012, I built a simple one-page website for an event that was being held on campus. ![]()
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