You are not digging a bomb shelter. You have not turned your house into a warehouse for canned goods, water, rice and hurricane lamps. We all have reason to worry. The global economy is in the midst of a profound shift not seen since the end of the last century, when the industrial revolution turned the working world upside down. Human operators are being displaced as robots man assembly lines.
Computers increasingly automate intricate design work.
CD-ROMs carry the accumulated knowledge of an entire field of experts. As Asia crawls out of the Crisis, don't expect the return of familiar cozy patterns. In the previous paradigm, which worked very well, people sat in their boxes, did their thing and didn't worry about what was going on elsewhere. Now employees will have to think outside the box. Following procedures in a stiff hierarchy will no longer cut it.