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Automation could wipe out 375-800 million jobs globally in the next 13 years, including 16-54 million in the U.S. But don't worry, there's a new job waiting for you:
The McKinsey Global Institute cautions that as many as 375 million workers will need to switch occupational categories by 2030 due to automation.
[...] "The model where people go to school for the first 20 years of life and work for the next 40 or 50 years is broken," Susan Lund, a partner for the McKinsey Global Institute and co-author of the report, told CNN Tech. "We're going to have to think about learning and training throughout the course of your career."
[...] "The dire predictions that robots are taking our jobs are overblown," Lund said. "Yes, work will be automated, [but] there will be enough jobs for everyone in most areas." The authors don't expect automation will displace jobs involving managing people, social interactions or applying expertise. Gardeners, plumbers, child and elder-care workers are among those facing less risk from automation.
Also at Bloomberg.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday December 01 2017, @04:24PM
Yep, there's a lot of places where ST missed the boat, which are outside of the computing mostly: genetic engieneering is one. They touched on it a few times, once in a 2nd season TNG episode where a research colony engineered some kids to have super immune systems which ended up making them deadly to other humans, and Dr. Pulaski has to save the day and herself. Then in DS9, somehow genetic engineering has been illegal for a long time in the Federation (which contradicts that TNG episode), but Dr. Bashir turns out to be a product of it. But really, with advanced enough technology, GE is pretty impossible to stop. How are you going to tell that someone had the Sickle Cell Anemia defect fixed in their genes? And why would you not want them to do this anyway? Plus, now we're figuring out how to modify genes in already-living creatures with CRISPR; back in the 90s, we though it'd only be possible at the embryo stage, so theoretically, if you could jump through time a couple centuries, you could have your genes altered to be taller, smarter, a different skin color, have some superhuman abilities, etc.
With neural links, that sounds like The Matrix, and in a world with that technology, it becomes questionable why anyone would want to live outside the simulation. We could engineer ourselves into a future where we just don't want to live real life any more. Why bother having kids, for instance, if you can live in a simulation and have simulated kids that are just the way you want them, instead of having real kids which have a good chance of turning out to be little assholes?