Developers and data scientists are today\u2019s blacksmiths, with obsolescence looming large.\u2060
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\nOr are they? Listen to almost any conversation over the past decade or two about the most valuable training and skills for career prospects in the 21st century and it will probably have been dominated by science, technology, engineering, maths and coding, the FT’s chief data reporter, John Burn-Murdoch writes. \u2060
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\nClearly, demand has indeed been very strong. But the implicit assumption that it\u2019s specifically the quantitative and technical aspects of these professions that make them well rewarded is not borne out by the evidence.\u2060<\/p>\n
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