alt Hacker News> accurate predictions of the future over a 40 year time scale
I think the problem is the reverse. We no longer can make good predictions for four years ahead, certainly not eight.
And yet, people have to make choices - so they need advice and some kind of hope of a guess.
> you might have to change careers.
I hope this is some dust dry humor!
I remember talking to an admissions tutor at Cambridge and he said even there most applicants had no idea what they wanted to do for a career. They just drifted into whatever came up.
In the UK only about 30-40% of students end up working in an area related to their degree.
The people who have a realistic plan that works out for them are a minority.