A 486 can execute up to 54 million instructions per second. Today's average consumers wear more computing power on their wrists than existed in the entire world before 1961. Computer power is now eight thousand times less expensive than it was thirty years ago. It would travel at the speed of sound, and go about six hundred miles on a thimble of gas. Not only has the world changed technologically, but the way we work, where we work, and how long we work has also changed.
Work is global.
Soon, competition for your very own job will come from practically anywhere on earth and you will change jobs a lot. In 1991, nearly one out of three American workers had been with their employer for less than a year and almost two out of three for less than five years. Less than half of the workforce in the industrial world will be holding conventional full-time jobs in organizations by the beginning of the 21st century. Constant training, retraining, job-hopping, and even career hopping will become the norm. Every year, more and more people will become self-employed.