Diversity in the ad industry: a newbie's view

With so much talk about the romance, creativity and fun of advertising being removed by technology and short term-ism, can the industry attract the new, diverse talent to fuel its future? Is there life for advertising after the Mad Men era? I’m trying to find that out by spending a year working in the industry. Here’s what I have found out so far.
The trending thing for university degrees nowadays is ‘sandwich years’ - the third year of your degree spent working in the in