Along with the author, I'm shocked and appalled that the BLS in the 1980's failed to anticipate the creation of the Internet and the rise of self-service online travel sales! Obviously the BLS wasn't talking to Al Gore. The author is obviously a Gen Y'er who has little memory of the pre-internet era and has a corresponding understanding of how transfomational it was in a few key industries (travel sales being one).

To paraphrase the same paragraph from the story, more than ten years after the survey was released, 75% of the jobs projected to grow fastest had indeed grown faster than average -- hardly a random result. Was it perfect? No. It's easy to throw stones in retrospect; does the author have an alternative to suggest?