Regardless of how ridiculous it seems this is a result of the isolationist policies of the US government and there will be traction to invest in such things in EU, Asia and beyond even if the whole thing becomes a complete non-event.
Shortage of workers is an excuse to bring in offshoring or short term visas / save money. I would prefer strategic longer term permanent immigration of quality candidates rather than moving the skills and knowledge overseas.
I'm not sure getting out of Europe would help that. Where would you suggest, maybe Canada, Australia, New Zealand but the situation will continue to be volatile I think. I don't think going to US is ideal at the current time for Europeans. Running a business is probably the best option if you can do something in demand. A different career is probably only realistic if you're very young as the only things I could suggest that would be a lot better (financially) might be by training as a professional Accountant, Lawyer or Doctor (and all of these might also be threatened by AI.
This is a UK perspective not Europe, but there are a lot of parallels (until recently) and I know Europe pretty well.
As below, Physics and Maths degrees tend to have high entry requirements, large amounts of hands on (classroom or labs) hours, lots of highly focussed students. I observed this while studying Electronic Engineering, which I would say is similar but more practical and with lower entrance requirements. I'm not sure where computer science would fit into this as it's a newer discipline with less stringent core requirements. Other IT courses may be less rigorous and include people that are less focussed on their education relatively.
As above I would say that the physics students I know are often the ones going furthest in their careers either in research, computing (know a few at google), consulting e.g. PWC etc
You're assuming that the media is selecting what news they're reporting based on how they want you to think. Maybe they're just reporting something that they believe people would be interested in.
I think this is fairly commonly understood in the UK/Europe at least where they tend to mandate this rubbish. Surely the law should just state that Necessary only is the default... On some sites you have to drag 10s-100s of sliders to turn off all of the optional cookies. This is a good way of knowing a site I don't want to visit!
Fun fact: you already can have a site that only has functional cookies without needing a cookie popup. Of course companies would really like you to accept advertising cookies, leading to the horrible state of every site now having a cookie popup.
I'd be much happier if the rule was: necessary for functionality only, no action required. Anything else must be an active choice. I'd eliminate the "legitimate interest" category as it's so heavily abused.
In practice I have third party cookies disabled in my browser and most things still work fine - random exceptions though (the SAS airline website being a particularly annoying one).
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Bus pass is issued by the government though. Student id is issued by the college. I know because I made one at the student union to help with getting into nightclubs (allegedly).
And here we created fake state-issued driver's licenses when I was in college.
(Wish I could find a photo of a giant, fake driver's license on foam core with a rectangle cut out for the person to stand behind when a photo was taken.)
I'd probably do either the aws or azure architecture exams. I use both fairly often but have a bit of a gap on the infrastructure side. Alternatively I might do some actual building in serverless technologies rather than just drawing pictures, I'm at a large company so often developers are picking up the detailed tasks.
If I wanted to do something completely new I might dive into more detail around security/pen testing although I've noticed that a lot of companies doing this just seem to run a lot of off the shelf tools these days.
Not just satnav, but as a kid I could remember at least 20 phone number of close friends and family. My spelling used to be quite good, but now I struggle with words my 9 year old can spell. I think this is the way with any new technology, we just move to the next level of abstraction and hopefully get to build bigger/better things...maybe.
I would wager that autocorrect/predictive text on your phone is to blame for that. It is such an overlooked convenience to a problem we solved decades ago that it is on virtually any smartphone.
Typing in a hurry or you forgot to add one more s in the word 'necessary'? No worries! Keep typing incorrectly and the phone will take care of the proper spelling of the word for you! And it will do so faster than you figuring out the right spelling for the misspelled word. Many of us have probably regressed in our spelling ability to some degree at this point.
I do find that my ability to multitask has improved as of late, and I can switch contexts much faster by just knowing that I can quickly probe an AI to bring up to speed on a topic I used to know in detail about.
(Though it could also just be that I've gotten significantly better at taking notes over the last 5 years)
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