The future is emotional [AEON.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/28/174:00 AM

Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable

Early last year, the World Economic Forum issued a paper warning that technological change is on the verge of upending the global economy. To fill the sophisticated jobs of tomorrow, the authors argued, the ‘reskilling and upskilling of today’s workers will be critical’. Around the same time, the then president Barack Obama announced a ‘computer science for all’ programme for elementary and high schools in the United States. ‘[W]e have to make sure all our kids are equipped for the jobs of the future, which means not just being able to work with computers but developing the analytical and coding skills to power our innovation economy,’ he said.

[For more of this story, written by Livia Gershon, go to https://aeon.co/essays/the-key...llege-but-compassion]

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