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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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Recorded 2026-09-02. 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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Megatrends One Year Later – #21: Career Obsolescence and Creation – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening (2026-09-02)

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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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ARTICLE · Tue Sep 01Megatrends One Year Later – #21: Career Obsolescence and Creation – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
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Publish Date2026-09-02
Updated Date2026-09-18
Observed Date2026-09-02
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