The Rules Have Changed
Industrial Age | Information Age |
Philosophy Go to school, get good grades, find a safe, secure job with benefits, and stay there all your life. After twenty years or so you retire, and the company and the government take care of you for the rest of your life. | Go to school, get good grades, find a job, and then retrain yourself for that job. Find new companies and new jobs and retrain and hope and pray you have enough money set aside to last you much longer than age sixty-five because you will live well beyond the age of sixty-five. |
Defining theory Einstein's E = mc2 | Moore's law = the amount of information doubles every eighteen months |
Rate of change What you went to school to learn was valuable for a longer period of time | What you learned is important, but not as important as how fast you can learn, change, and adapt to new information. |
Retirement plan Employer was responsible. | Employee is responsible. |
Age consequence You became more valuable the older you got. | You became less valuable the older you got. |
Work Employees for life | Free agents |
Who made the big bucks? Smart kids like doctors and lawyers | Athletes, actors, and musicians |
For some people, these changes will be a blessing; for others, these coming changes will be a curse; and for others, these changes will still make no difference at all.
"There are people who make things happen; there are people who watch things happen; and there are people who say, 'What happened?”
An excerpt from Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Kid Smart Kid
An excerpt from Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Kid Smart Kid
