*You're right raw mustard, except, these jobs you speak of have already been created *

Not really Rehctub, because in terms of the internet and marketing,
we have only scratched the surface in Australia. Only now under duress, kicking and screaming, are Australian retailers getting serious about online marketing. Overseas marketing is finally bringing them out of their deep sleep, as they simply had it too good
for too long.

So if your kids learn to be computer programmers/IT workers, their
future is assured.

Newspapers are here to stay:

There will always be the need to polish shoes, check the oil level in the car, mulch trees and a range of cleaning jobs around the house.

Many other things we can differ about, but the decline in print media,
and the changes in other forms are here, well under way.
And NOTHING to do with the numbers in their work places, although that decline is a symptom, it is not a cause.
Y will need to look for other polishing cloths.
A symptom?, please this is not about politics!
That New Zealand journalist, now working for is it channel nine?
He is the future of journalism.
Folk want to see/read the a current affair/investigative stuff.
That is what drives the scandal magazines.
And, like bait on the fish hook if enough of it is spread around, with a little burly, we will come.
Even Rupert Murdock, late in life, has taken to twitter, maybe not his wisest act.
We should in fact not let Australian politics blind us to worldwide events.
I think Raw Mustard has touched the future.
Governments over intervention, here on the net, is a very real danger.
Already, sometimes for good reason, and even more often to protect those who seem unable to do it themselves, we see intervention.
Not costs but delivering a product that brings enough users to bring advertising drives the change

Yabby, you sill never convince me that online retailing will replace jobs lost in regular retail.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/15148704/teen-web-entrepreneur-makes-mark/

Rehctub, perhaps you are like many of our generation, ie simply too
old to understand what is happening around you and the potential
involved.

Meantime above is an example of a Perth kid who understood
that potential.

You are getting old and set in your ways, mate :)

Sorry Rechtub yabby is right.
Bloke I can and have bought a big screen TV for half price.
Buy radio electronic parts from America for a third.
The Sydney morning Herald, once sold pages of advertisements and held the market, its shares are less than 40 cents now.
Millionaires like Harvey Normans owner know, and fear the change.
Much opinion we see, like it or not, comes from a black hole of no understanding.
Right now face book twitter and more are growing, sales of portable commuters phones, is one in every six humans have one.
A stunning figure.
But it will grow.
Current moves, user pays, to charge for on line news services, are not growing fast enough to suit the Murdock's, but will, as soon as the free stuff is stopped.
In less than 10 years we have seen only a tenth of the changes we will in the next ten.
Much of the anti NBN comment, the very thought it is so we can play games faster,is so uniformed it is funny.
No more peddle radio ,out back shopping is on line now ,then?