Lifelong Learning Isn’t New

From the time of the Industrial Revolution people have been complaining about how the times have been changing at an ever accelerating rate.

In Victorian times workers’ institutes helped working people update their skills. So, they couldn’t do it on their laptop. You can always read a book on a horse drawn bus.

In the past thirty years (of my working life) the mantra has always been “update your training; you won’t be in the same job for life” (how wrong could they be about that one; I've been doing this job since 1987).

The Internet means you don’t have to go out of the house to update your skills. So you save your bus fare; you spend the money on your subscription to the gym.