Utkarsh Narang argues that career reinvention will become as normal and invisible as electricity. He traces how each technological wave, from agriculture through the industrial revolutions to AI, has forced continuous change. Soon, shifting between varied professional roles will be the default expectation, not the exception.
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Careers will really run like a portfolio of different things that you will do. And reinvention is going to become so common that we won't sort of really notice it. It's going to become like electricity. It'll be there all the time. You know, look at it like this, that it's only when it happens one-off, then you kind of say, oh my God, I mean, it's so amazing what has happened. But historically, if you look at it, you put all these changes, take a little bit of a bird's-eye view. You take a bird's eye view, change has always been, you know, from the last sort of first industrial revolution, before that agrarian economy, first industrial revolution, second, then of course, you know, all the IT-related stuff, digital transformation, and now AI. It's all a continuum, you know, each time it builds on something else which is already there, and then you sort of, you know, apply it and then it triggers further growth.