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One Year Later: Career Obsolescence and Creation

One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #21: Career Obsolescence and Creation as part of my 30 Megatrends series. Time to grade myself.

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Publish Date	2026-09-02
Updated Date	2026-09-18
Observed Date	2026-09-02
Strength	strong

Observed in Jim Carroll’s archive on September 02, 2026.

One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #21: Career Obsolescence and Creation as part of my 30 Megatrends series. Time to grade myself.

Source: Megatrends One Year Later – #21: Career Obsolescence and Creation – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening.

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Industries Workforce & Professional Services
Industries Education & Learning
Industries Technology & Telecom
Industries Manufacturing & Industrial

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Domains Society, Skills & Work
Domains AI & Machine Intelligence

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TrendsCareer Obsolescence and CreationTechnology destroys some tasks and roles while creating new categories of work, often faster than education and career systems can respond.IndustriesWorkforce & Professional ServicesExpertise is being reorganized around AI augmentation, knowledge velocity, new career structures and the ability to assemble skills at speed.IndustriesEducation & LearningThe central challenge in education is no longer access to knowledge. It is learning at the speed at which knowledge changes.IndustriesTechnology & TelecomConnectivity is becoming ubiquitous while intelligence moves everywhere: cloud, edge, devices, networks and autonomous systems increasingly operate as one fabric.IndustriesManufacturing & IndustrialManufacturing is becoming an intelligent, adaptive system in which software, robotics, materials science and data increasingly define physical production.DomainsSociety, Skills & WorkChanging skills, careers, demographics, generational values and the organizational structures of work.DomainsAI & Machine IntelligenceArtificial intelligence, machine learning, generative systems and autonomous agents that increasingly perform cognitive work.

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