Joel Pearson

They're not understanding the value of learning and degrees.

They're treating it like a piece of paper.

And that's a dangerous thing in itself.

And I know that might sound really naive, but I think that- No, yeah, it sounds simple on one level, but I think if you dig a bit deeper, it's not.

Yeah.

So with universities, yeah, we need to as fast as possible start changing these courses.

I think if you go back to what I was saying before of this sort of the idea that we're going to be the owners of our own projects, whether that's for profit or not profit or whatever, then you can think of, well, we need to start shifting over time university subjects to be more and more project-based work and let people use whatever tools are available, AI, robotics, whatever.

Yeah.

and change the way the courses are assessed.

And that is going to take some time to do.

That's what I'm recommending to universities at the moment.

Gosh.

Yeah, but we're talking about such big things, right?

And everywhere I go and I give these talks, I can feel the room.

You feel the emotion in the room change.

I'll often get a show of hands of anxiety levels at the beginning and at the end, and quite often anxiety will be higher at the end.

And I kind of do that somewhat on purpose because I want people to feel the emotion around this.

Because I want them to start thinking about their lives, society, jobs, and understand what's happening.

I think it's time to, it's no longer time to have our heads in the sand.

And they need to start talking about this with their friends and family and colleagues.