Here's another excerpt from Dilip Mukerjea's new book, Brainaissance:

The 3Cs of Life Perception 

The Container-Contents-Context Metaphor

Life is not logical; it is psychological. The quality of our consciousness shapes physical reality. In order to influence ourselves, and others, consider a triunity of elements: the container, the contents, and the context. We perceive information (contents) bundled into some sort of packaging (containers), addressing external realities (contexts). 

If any one of these three elements is transformed in some way, we change the way we perceive the item or element under scrutiny. This applies to anything: products, pro‑cesses, platforms, services, systems, and relationships…within fields, cultures, and disciplines of any preference. Words by themselves are meaningless; they need context to become meaningful. 

This book is a container with its contents of information as text and imagery, radiating towards a multiplicity of contexts. Every time you go through the book (the container) the contents should impact you differently, and the plurality of contexts you address will reflect your expanding awareness. The image on this page describes this concept, where the pizza box is the container, the pizza the contents, and the outside world beyond the box, the context. 

A CONSIDERATION FOR THE NEW WORLD OF WORK: 

If we are to assuage some of the hundreds of millions of redundancies that we’ll all face in the next twenty years society has to change its thinking. Over the next twenty years Governments and academies estimate that between 30% and 50% of all of today’s jobs will be replaced by technology. However, unlike the disruptions of yesteryear where technology replaced Blue Collar jobs today’s technologies are replacing White Collar knowledge workers; and it’s this shift that could have dire consequences for you and your children’s future career prospects. 

Some of the world’s best self-learning Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computer Systems are already replacing advisors, analysts, artists, commentators, consultants, doctors, journalists, musicians, paralegals, PhDs, teachers, translators and even the data scientists who created their original Algorithmic Models. 

Machine Vision systems are replacing quality inspectors, maintenance workers, security analysts and security guards. 

Hardware robots have already replaced many of the Blue Collar factory and warehouse jobs and now they’re replacing bar staff, maintenance workers, porters, soldiers, waiters and surgeons while their new, modern day software-only counterparts are replacing administrative staff, customer service clerks and FX traders. 

Smarter Cities will reduce the need for police, street cleaners and a myriad of other public servants while Wearables and Telehealth are both reducing the demand for secondary care workers, doctors and personal trainers. 

As the jobs market continues to shift, education and our systems of learning need to shift ahead of it, for we are now in The Learning Economy