Quote from "The 8th Habit"

"Remember that with each infrastructure shift, over 90 percent of the people were eventually downsized. I believe this is now happening as we move from the Industrial to the Information /Knowledge Worker Age. People are either losing their jobs or gradually being transformed by the new demands of their jobs. I personally believe that over 20 percent of the present workforce is becoming obsolete, and that unless they rededicate and reinvent themselves, within a few years, another 20 percent will become obsolete. 

This Information Age is transforming so rapidly into the Knowledge Worker Age that it is going to take continual investment in our own education and training to stay abreast. Much of this will be done by the school of hard knocks, but people who see what is happening and who are disciplined will systematically continue their education until they acquire the new mind-set and the new skill-set required to anticipate and accommodate the realities of the new age. Hopefully this will gradually morph into an Age of Wisdom, when information and knowledge are impregnated with purpose and principles." 

-Steven Covey