Yeah, this is all going to happen, and in countries like ours, governmental leadership is woefully ignorant of newer tech industries like whatever the A.I. means. Musk, being the great communicator he must be, <choke> at least says what many government officials won’t or don’t talk about, the conventional job disappearance trend. It’s not hard to imagine that even a shipping port scenario, as modern as it is by today’s standards, might be completely overtaken by tasking bots from ship to storage to ship without any human intervention except maybe a remote network controller for monitoring occasional anomalies. (weather-storms-etc)

Soft skills, possibly the most important being listening among others listed, what’s all this and jobs about? How about, ‘may I take your order, please? did you want a drink with that’? McDonald's is hell-bent on loading up their stores with massive lifesize ordering kiosk screens. Of course, this is happening everywhere. (Personally I make a point of never using them, cause I’m old, I see enough screen interaction already and don’t seek more, and I also don’t feel the need to help McDonald’s debug their products in the wild, and me just being me) This trend is everywhere and probably a signal why corporate profits are up and production and service jobs holding steady or decreasing sometimes rapidly. Get ready for the future of a credit economy. *

I remember a couple of decades ago, there was a call out to hire programmers that knew how to converse in English. Apparently back in the day communicating with IT departments was being able to interpret various grunts, groans, and other bodily noises by IT workers with Cheetos stained hands along with the occasional carbonated soda burps. So people got sick of that and the call went out for English majors that could also code. Of course, after that era faded we are now faced with auto-bot programmers of the future that can read a library of zillions of subroutines quickly hence even programmers face a future untimely demise, not tomorrow but a decade or so for most routines, quite possible.

Don’t know what the answers are for the future of work, but there might be some openings for people that can successfully communicate with the public regarding job numbers reporting as successfully as modern-day accounting pros can make numbers look like anything the bosses are asking for. (real example of soft skills in a job sensitive future?)

*This is a trend that bugs old people, at least like me. So many newer restaurants (similar to but not Panera) that have order lines and pretty much no real nice seating, says to me, hey idiot, order your food, pay, and get lost! now!, so I avoid as many of those places as possible, I mean we are not horses! but I do eat at Panera only because they have decent seating. end rant.