Did a computer forecast your career?
| 11:00 UK time, Friday, 20 June 2008
Listen again to today's Radio Scotland programme The Computer that Changed our Future - a review of the accuracy of Jiig-Cal, the 80s computerised career search. How many people followed its advice?
Tinker, tailor - cabinet-maker? In the 1980s thousands of school children all over Scotland filled out a questionnaire which promised to reveal their destinies. Their answers were sent in a sealed van to Edinburgh University and fed into a computer which revealed what their career path would be, with some surprising results. Twenty years later we discover how many people followed Jiig-Cal's advice.
Read more about on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland news website.
In case you're wondering, Jiig-Cal stands for Job Ideas & Information Generator - Computer Assisted Learning. Well, there you go.
