MONTREAL GAZETTE | Google chief sees continuous learning as key to overcoming 鈥榙isruption anxiety鈥�
鈥淒isruption anxiety is in every single field,鈥� Sabrina聽Geremia said Friday during an exchange with Jui Ramaprasad, a professor of information systems at 韩国裸舞. 鈥淧art of the anxiety is rooted in the pace of change. It is moving fast. Right now, your life is the slowest it鈥檚 ever going to be.鈥�
Google鈥檚 own statistics provide insights into the increasing speed of change. In 1998, the company indexed about 2.5 million Internet sites. Today, Geremia said, that figure stands at about 2 billion. Many Internet-related jobs didn鈥檛 even exist 15 years ago, she added.
To maximize their odds of success, existing and future workers need 鈥渁 mindset of continuous learning coupled with the right skills,鈥� Geremia said. 鈥淎lways knowing that you have to learn things, and learn new things, all the time.鈥�
Technology and its impact on the jobs of the future have been at the heart of聽discussions聽at C2 since Wednesday.
