{"id":1940,"date":"2017-02-28T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2017-02-28T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:36:30","slug":"bold-strategy-cuban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/02\/28\/bold-strategy-cuban\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold Strategy, Cuban!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mark-cuban-liberal-arts-is-the-future-2017-2\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mark-cuban-liberal-arts-is-the-future-2017-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.quotesgram.com\/img\/19\/17\/1200412900-mark_cuban_funnyface_470.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Cuban is coming in hot with a bold prediction for the next decade: Liberal Arts is the future! According to Cuban, finance is &#8220;the easiest thing&#8221; and in the very near future data will be spit onto us at such a rate that the greatest demand will be for those in the workforce who can view the data most uniquely&#8230; Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>I usually like Cuban&#8217;s antics (when he&#8217;s not grooming America for his inevitable and probably short-lived 2020 presidential run) and hesitate to second-guess the business savvy of a man who cut his teeth as a bar owner on a Big Ten college campus, but this prediction made me scoff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.workinsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mark-cuban-embrace-debate.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course interpreting massive amounts of data will be an important task of the future workforce, but to predict that market demand for &#8220;free thinkers&#8221; will outpace demand for engineers and programmers is wild. I think Cuban has been drinking the entrepreneurial Kool-Aid for too long.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nextimpulsesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cuban.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or has he? As technology advances and jobs become automated, it&#8217;s plausible that our human elements, or the &#8220;soft skills&#8221; this article mentions, may be what keeps us valuable. If Cuban means that we now have enough computer scientists and engineers making the technology and we need more people &#8220;free thinking&#8221; ways to best apply it to our problems, then that sounds like a job for entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article:\u00a0http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mark-cuban-liberal-arts-is-the-future-2017-2 Mark Cuban is coming in hot with a bold prediction for the next decade: Liberal Arts is the future! According to Cuban, finance is &#8220;the easiest thing&#8221; and in the very near future data will be spit onto us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/02\/28\/bold-strategy-cuban\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}