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Although most human mental and physical labor will eventually be replaced by automation, complex cognitive skills, such as creativity and social-emotional intelligence, will take longer to replace. As a consequence, there may be, for a time, expanding employment opportunities for occupations that use more of those skills, such as architects, artists and designers, information specialists, and public relations professionals. It is impossible to predict what new creative or social jobs might be invented, but it is likely that the future job market will see more part-time “gig” jobs, public sector jobs, and elderly care jobs, and that many new jobs will be types that will integrate technology and humans in a symbiotic way.
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Hughes, J.J. (2017). What Is the Job Creation Potential of New Technologies?. In: LaGrandeur, K., Hughes, J. (eds) Surviving the Machine Age. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51165-8_9
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