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Lesson 4 Job Trends
第四課 工作趨勢
Survival of the Fittest
適者生存
"Between now and the 21st century,
“在現今和21世紀之間，
citizens of the world's richest and most advanced nations
世界上最富有最先進的國家的公民
will find it more and more difficult to keep up with the demand for change.
將會發現要趕上變化的需求越來越困難了。
For them, the future will arrive too soon."
對他們而言，未來會到來得很快。”
So begins Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock, written back in 1970.
這是阿爾文·托夫勒早在1970年寫的書《未來的沖擊》的開頭。
Now people are beginning to pay attention to Toffler's ideas
現在人們開始注意托夫勒的觀點，
because the speed of change is becoming increasingly fast.
因為變化的速度正在日益加快。
It is sometimes difficult to work out the patterns of change.
有時很難搞清變化的規律。
What should you do?
你應該怎么做呢？
First of all, don't panic.
首先，不要驚慌。
Take a deep breath and try to get a sense of the good things the future has to offer.
深呼吸，試著感受未來給予的好事物。
You don't need to be Einstein to predict the job areas which will be most affected by such change.
你不需要成為愛因斯坦，預測哪個工作領域將會受這些變化影響最大。
Jobs in farming, coal mining and heavy industry are decreasing rapidly.
農業、煤礦和重工業方面的工作正在急劇減少。
On the other hand, the service industry , the media and information technology are booming
另一方面，服務業、媒體以及信息技術產業正在蓬勃發展。
Without doubt, the number of jobs in information technology will multiply.
勿庸置疑，信息技術行業中的工作將會增加。
There are currently over 100,000,000 computers in the world
目前世界上有一億多臺電腦，
and by 2020 there will be 10 times more.
到2020年，這個數字將會翻十倍。
Because of this, people who work with computers will be in much greater demand.
因此，電腦工作者的需求量激增。
