News That Affects You - Youth Magazine Staff - February 1983

Youth Magazine Staff

Will Your Career Compute? - Record Industry Singing the Blues - Kremlin to Cool Western Fads? - CITY IN FOCUS: MOSCOW: It had to happen sooner or later. This year Time magazine's annual "Man of the Year" isn't a man. It's the computer. Really it's not surprising. The computer is having a major impact on our world today - from government, to business, to the home. What effect will it have on you and your career possibilities? Business experts say that computers will affect nearly every job field in the future. That is why almost 40 percent of American teenagers are planning a computer-oriented career, according to a 1981 Gallup poll. High schools, junior high schools and even elementary schools now offer computer classes to anticipate the explosion. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library