Joao-Pierre Ruth

Pop culture trends from the 1980s laid out warnings and regulatory concerns relevant to current discussions of digital currency and data privacy.

Organizations that want to leverage NFTs or data collection might want to take a glimpse into some comparable trends from the past that could inform the days ahead.

Long before NFTs were collected for their assumed value, comic book collecting pushed a cycle of overspeculation and overproduction in the market that led to an implosion in… Show more

Pop culture trends from the 1980s laid out warnings and regulatory concerns relevant to current discussions of digital currency and data privacy.

Organizations that want to leverage NFTs or data collection might want to take a glimpse into some comparable trends from the past that could inform the days ahead.

Long before NFTs were collected for their assumed value, comic book collecting pushed a cycle of overspeculation and overproduction in the market that led to an implosion in the 1990s when even Marvel did a stint of bankruptcy. Show less

Data scientists, software engineers, and a host of other IT professionals were needed to build up infrastructure and drive the next innovations. In response, high school and college curriculum, trade schools, STEM and STEAM programs, coding boot camps, and private academies ramped up the training of the theoretical workforce of tomorrow.

New campuses were planned, online courses surged, and many career changers and new job seekers were presented with the possibility of big salaries -- if… Show more

Data scientists, software engineers, and a host of other IT professionals were needed to build up infrastructure and drive the next innovations. In response, high school and college curriculum, trade schools, STEM and STEAM programs, coding boot camps, and private academies ramped up the training of the theoretical workforce of tomorrow.

New campuses were planned, online courses surged, and many career changers and new job seekers were presented with the possibility of big salaries -- if they learned how to work with 0s and 1s.

After reporting on such efforts for more than a decade, writing stories about multiple campaigns to train up potential tech employees, it is easy to wonder why there is a hiring crisis now.

With respect to Alan Moore’s acclaimed Superman story “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” about the disappearance of the titular superhero, what became of the tech workforce of the future? Show less