Staying In Shape

I find that it is really important to keep active, the older I get. The body loses its tone more quickly with age. When I was young I was able to stop exercising for a long time and then pick up almost from where I had stopped, but now if I slacken my pace, it takes considerable time to recover the lost ground.

This is a problem because I basically don’t like to exercise. I need a new exercise program that consists of movements that come naturally.  Maybe jumping to conclusions, pushing people’s buttons, pulling on their heartstrings, carrying things too far, flying off the handle, dodging responsibilities, and running off at the mouth.

Which Career for You?

It is often difficult for a young person to decide what they should be doing for a career. Occupations that exist today may be gone in a few years. But though robots may take many jobs, new ones will be created. For example, how about the need for behaviorial engineers to teach robots how to behave like humans?

Here are my suggestions of important fields that I think will boom in the near and medium term future: computer security, computer forensics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, life extension technology and bio-technology generally, and life coaching. If you want a career and have an interest in any of these fields, investigate it.

VR and AI Employment

Youth unemployment is a huge problem. Even here where the overall unemployment rate is 3.8%, the rate for under 25 is over 9%. It is running something like 13% in Australia, 15% in Russia and in excess of 35% in most of southern Europe.  Even over 50% is some areas. These are official figures. I suspect real rates are higher.

It is important for young people to develop skills that will be in demand. My suggestion: anything to do with virtual reality and artificial intelligence.  While robots may take away many jobs in the near and medium future, there will be many jobs created. For example, machine behavioral engineers who will teach robots how to behave like humans.

Another important field will be computer security. In the late 70s, during the presidential term of Jimmy Carter, America was within 7 minutes of launching a nuclear strike on the USSR.  A Soviet nuclear missile launch had been “detected” and by the time it was determined to be a detection error, the clock was seven minutes of launch deadline. The launching has to occur before the enemy destroys the missiles being launched and it appeared that the Soviet ones were only seven minutes from USA soil. In 2010, 50 Minute Man missiles suddenly became invisible to monitoring. It was not known if someone had launched them or had blocked the monitoring so that they could launch them. It was not known if the system had been hacked. The missiles are launched with a short computer code. They don’t care who sends the code nor from where; they just read the code and go. These extreme examples point out the need for white hat computer hackers who can protect vital systems.