As technology continues to change the way we live and work, some skills are becoming less important while others are becoming more valuable.
What skill do you think people will need most in the years ahead, and why?
My answer is critical thinking.
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Similar to @Bestill, I was going to say discernment. Anyone can use AI now and other technologies, but I think the truly important skills will be being able to not only use these technologies but to see them with a bigger picture lens and look at the ethics of using them and how best to use them for the long-term good of humanity and not the short-term of simply accomplishing a quick task.
The Bible has the answer: 1 Thessalonians 4.11 ** **And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
**12 **That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Our “leaders” will eventually use technology against those who don’t toe the line; so learning a skill, trade, etc. will probably be valuable.
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Let me share an unexpected gem in an otherwise forgettable s.f. novel, “Glorious.”
“Optimism, right. A very useful adaptation, when you’re facing the strange. It’s not cheerfulness y’know. … No need to pretend that. Optimism isn’t really in itself an emotional state at all. It’s a kind of meta-problem-solving-state. Travelers need a ruthless optimism.”
(Benford & Niven, p. 275)
Critical thinking. I think as a whole, our ability to critically think is being taken away little by little. First it was algorithms, now it’s AI. Social media and chat bots are doing the thinking for us. I believe that exercising your brain is more important than ever and in the years to come, it’s going to become even more painfully obvious who is just skating by using the answers from ChatGPT and not their own brains.
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