World Is Changing Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

The world is changing very fast
Changing technology rapidly
It's destroying jobs faster
Than it's creating
Technological progress eliminating
Thousands of jobs every year
and leaving the workers
Worse off than before
It's not the acute problem … it's chronic
Started since dawn of the industrial age
Now accelerated
Workers simply becoming obsolete
Like horses after the rise of automobile.
It's the race against machine
Fight for surviving with dignity
Today the online purchase
Putting down the shutters of retailers
Online booking closing travel agent's shop
Ola, Uber stopping taxi industry
Courier service compelled people
to forget the way of post office
It's not only in manufacturing,
clerical, retail or service sector
but in professions too
Like law, financial services, education
and medicine sector ….
It's in each and every field ….
Technology going global
We got it's economic benefits
but losing jobs
People are falling behind.
It's difficult to say
Which job will become obsolete
And what new will come?
Our educators must be prepared
for radical changes in future work force
They should recruit, select
and support teachers
Who are highly talented, innovative
and well suited to growing students'
critical thinking skills
Not just the party workers
Now teachers are more important than ever
If educational leaders invest time
In (re) creating and transforming teacher hiring
And professional development process
It may be possible to reduce
The innovation wave of unemployment.