Thomas Frey, who advises companies on future trends, says every job will be a technology job going forward. “Emerging technology will provide a lot more opportunities, where every job will have a technology element to it. It will not be about humans versus artificial intelligence, but about working with them.
People, however, need to be taught how to do this and enhance their skills,” the famed futurist and celebrity speaker said.
The Indian IT industry is at the crossroads. It needs to take strategic decisions to remain relevant in the future.
Individuals will need to upskill to ensure career longevity even as automation takes over certain jobs.
Careers in vogue right now may not even exist a decade later.
Blockchain, cryptocurrency, robotics and autonomous vehicles —all emerging technologies — will become mainstream over the next decade, requiring thousands of specialists.
Anil Talreja, partner, Deloitte, Haskins & Sells says that people who can design and engineer apps and new use cases for technology will always remain in high demand. We will also have access to vast amounts of data going forward.
“There will be huge demand for people who can analyse and structure this data such that it can be useful. While management consultants may not be needed, we will need data analysts, designers and engineers who can create algorithms to retrieve and structure this data,” he said.
So, what will the technology jobs of the future look like?
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