John Obaro, Group Managing Director of African technology giant, SystemSpecs, has urged students to acquire skills and attitudes necessary to thrive in a more technologically advanced future.
Delivering the guest lecture during the recently held 10th matriculation ceremony of McPherson University, Ogun State, Obaro said “Today needs thinkers so that we can be relevant tomorrow. It has been said that knowledge in most fields doubles about every five years. You must therefore have your eyes and imagination one step ahead of today, or your skills will be a mismatch for the new world of tomorrow.”
According to the technology tycoon, experts have said that in another 15 years, majority of career people are training for now may be irrelevant as most would be automated. Without meaning to undermine any course of study, some of the careers that have been identified include travel agents, typists, cashiers, librarians, couriers, bank tellers, textile workers, the print industry, sports referees and umpires, pilots, drivers, vendors, telemarketers and fishermen.
