Instruction
Instructions:
Answer the questions below.
Thoughtfully address each issue. Your response should be approximately 1-1 ½ pages long.
Questions
For this response, you will first need to answer the following questions:
What do you plan to do as your career?
What did your parents do?
What did your grandparents do?
Next choose two of these careers or jobs (two different ones, preferably one from each generation).
For each discuss the following:
How do you think technology, including computing systems, has changed this job in the past 20 or 40 years?
What problems has the new technology caused for employees in this field?
What benefits have been realized by this new technology?
Is the field more or less technical now than twenty years to forty years ago?
What qualifications are needed in order to work in this field now? What was needed when your parents or grandparents held this job?
Predict what changes you expect it the next 10 years in this field with the growing prevalence of computers and computing systems.