Nanduri predicts 2.5 billion people will be knowledge workers by 2030
Prakash Nanduri · The Journey to Information for Everyone // Prakash Nanduri, Paxata (Hosted by FirstMark) · Apr 13, 2016 · at 5:08
Prakash Nanduri, CEO of Paxata, projects global demographic shifts and the future growth of knowledge workers.
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“By 2030, there'll be five billion middle class human beings, of which at least half of them will be knowledge workers.”
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