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>> Bob Metcalfe: Hi, I’m Bob Metcalfe,
Professor of Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin.
I am now in my fifth career.
I was a scientist,
then I was an entrepreneur,
then I was a journalist,
then I was a venture capitalist
and now I am a professor of innovation.
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It’s amazing to me that networking is still going.
I have been at it for 40-some years.
It’s accelerating,
it’s not slowing down, it’s not peaking.
We are continuing to go further down.
We started with main-frames, mini-computers, personal computers,
laptop computers, now we’re into cell phones
and below that now into connecting
microcontrollers and intelligent devices.
There will be billions and billions of those before we’re through.
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Electrical engineering,
computer programming,
systems analysis,
installation and maintenance of networks,
their configuration –
those are all skills that will be increasingly in demand.
Now you have new job titles like social marketing wizard,
and cloud data manager,
and big data analyst.
Whole new jobs that just emerged.
That will not end, that will come and go.
That’s part of why we constantly need to be looking at what interests us
and getting smarter about it.
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There’s something very exciting happening in education right now.
The internet – remember iTunes disrupted music
and Amazon disrupted books –
well, the internet is now disrupting education.
The strongest phenomenon there is the MOOC –
Massive Online Open Courseware.
This is great news, because now education is going to be cheap,
it’s going to be much higher quality,
it’s going to be available from birth to grave,
it’s going to be available 24 hours a day,
it’s going to be fantastic.
So what we will move from is a world in which we use the word education a lot,
to a world in which we use the word learning a lot.
I’m very excited about that happening right now.