Ready to meet the 21st-century challenges?

Are you readying your family, especially children, to meet the challenges of the 21st-century technological churning, or are you stuck on conventional choices?

Technological change has not ended with smart phones,5G and cloud computing. It has only begun.

Unlike the blue-collar jobs that automation and roboticization have targeted in the past, they are now coming after the white-collar jobs. Layers of office jobs are at risk.

Developed countries are, already, in the midst of formulating policies that will retrain, redeploy human beings and reengineer industries to create new jobs and new avenues of employment.

Canada is a flagbearer of such pre-emptive thinking. It has devised policies to minimize the job losses resulting from the inevitable onslaught of technology. It is laying emphasis on and expanding sectors, that require human empathy, human discretion and instant decision making.

A country that can get as close to being unequal as possible in today's capitalistic world, it has the interest of its residents as its foremost priority. Canadian universities are devising and tweaking their curriculums to truly meet the needs of the uncertain and mind-numbing future that stares us in the face.

Living in a country that is farsighted and that helps residents adjust to the upheaval bound to be caused by technological changes is a fortune that one must plan to possess and be a part of. Or else, we will be dispossessed of the good quality of life that we have got used to. Please choose wisely.