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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many of the kids at my child's high school and those from closeby schools are deciding to major in engineering. I'm curious as to why its become so popular, as it wasn't as common when I went to college in the 90's.

Do parents guide their kids towards engineering now because they think it will be AI-proof? [/quote]

It's a fad and will likely go away in the next few years. STEM jobs are most susceptible to the AI revolution. Expect to see a swing to mathy social sciences (Econ, finance, statistics) and the much maligned humanities (history, English, etc.)[/quote]

When I went to college, in parent times, I said I might major in physics, engineering or creative writing.

My parents and their friends thought creative writing was by far the most practical option, because they had no idea what a physics major could do, other than be Einstein, and the papers were full of stories about engineers being fired due to the end of the Cold War.

I loved trying to program my Atari, but the conventional wisdom then was that learning to program a computer was about on par with learning to fix a truck: useful and honorable, but not something that you could talk much about at the country club.

I think the moral is that students should try to learn as much as they can about a wide range of topics and accept the fact that predicting the future is hard. [/quote]

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