It’s interesting to read about how versatile writing as a skill can be in the world of business, especially considering that English as a degree is often given a bad reputation as being something that’s useless and a waste of money. Yet despite that reputation, the skills that an English degree teaches are very valuable to the working world, and I suspect that will continue to be the case even as technology evolves and becomes more advanced.
Even when jobs are in jeopardy, the people studied were able to shift into other jobs that involve writing. It may have been writing that differed from what they were used to, but they were still able to adapt and do their new jobs. It definitely makes me wonder if this will always be the case, that writing provides a versatility and ability to move from job to job that can’t fully be taken away by the development of technology. How could technology be designed in a way that can fulfill all the writing positions of a human? Would it be able to be designed in a way that allowed it to get across the emotional aspects when writing required it?
This reading makes me think a lot about the place of writing in the future for jobs and how a degree that helps with writing could become more valuable than people like to give it credit for.
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