Arthur Hanson
Well-known member
More than almost any other industry, the semiconductor industry relies and absolutely depends on a highly skilled workforce that is constantly advancing its skill set at a blistering pace. The semi industry must also realize that it also depends on a population that also wants to advance its skill set to buy its latest products. Advanced teaching and training methods at the same or faster rate are not only key to the semi industry advancing, but increasing the size and demand of their markets.
If the tech industry is to keep up its growth, it must put as much effort into improving education/training as it puts into its products. Just as the tech industry has constantly lowered the cost of its products while increasing their functionality and performance, it is past time for the industry to apply this ethos to education/training. Lowering the cost and time to educate/train people is not only going to be key to producing ever better products, but increasing the market for those same products. Adaptive education guided by AI or near AI present the best opportunity for making this happen.
Much education/training the world over is firmly rooted in the past with slowly increasing quality at ever increasing costs. If this is not changed we will have an increasingly polarized world with ever more concentrated wealth and knowledge that will become increasingly unstable. Broad based, low cost, high speed education is going to be the key to our future and the semiconductor industry is the natural leader for it has a very broad based skill set in organization, materials and the uses of the broadest range of technologies/science of any industry out there. The breadth of the semiconductor industry in its uses of science, materials, manufacturing methods and organization in both structure and finances is unrivaled not only in size and scope, but speed of change and advancement.
Key to making all of this happen and continue while keeping a stable society will be an educational system that like the semiconductor industry itself, constantly improves, innovates, lowers costs of education/training at the same rate or faster than it advances its products.
It is in the interest of the industry to apply the ethos of faster, better, cheaper to both products and education/training to not only keep itself strong, but the market for its products. We are about to enter a new age and with wealth, power and knowledge, wisdom and responsibility must be made a key part of this equation.
Only an intelligent population can make intelligent decisions and truly help others.
Welfare and aid on a permanent and many times intergenerational basis will always fail.
If the tech industry is to keep up its growth, it must put as much effort into improving education/training as it puts into its products. Just as the tech industry has constantly lowered the cost of its products while increasing their functionality and performance, it is past time for the industry to apply this ethos to education/training. Lowering the cost and time to educate/train people is not only going to be key to producing ever better products, but increasing the market for those same products. Adaptive education guided by AI or near AI present the best opportunity for making this happen.
Much education/training the world over is firmly rooted in the past with slowly increasing quality at ever increasing costs. If this is not changed we will have an increasingly polarized world with ever more concentrated wealth and knowledge that will become increasingly unstable. Broad based, low cost, high speed education is going to be the key to our future and the semiconductor industry is the natural leader for it has a very broad based skill set in organization, materials and the uses of the broadest range of technologies/science of any industry out there. The breadth of the semiconductor industry in its uses of science, materials, manufacturing methods and organization in both structure and finances is unrivaled not only in size and scope, but speed of change and advancement.
Key to making all of this happen and continue while keeping a stable society will be an educational system that like the semiconductor industry itself, constantly improves, innovates, lowers costs of education/training at the same rate or faster than it advances its products.
It is in the interest of the industry to apply the ethos of faster, better, cheaper to both products and education/training to not only keep itself strong, but the market for its products. We are about to enter a new age and with wealth, power and knowledge, wisdom and responsibility must be made a key part of this equation.
Only an intelligent population can make intelligent decisions and truly help others.
Welfare and aid on a permanent and many times intergenerational basis will always fail.
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