[tariqali34]

The only jobs that probably won't be automated away is programming. Even if you build layers and layers of abstraction, you still have to code on top of the highest layer...and debug the machines when they go wrong (and they will go wrong; machines aren't perfect).

I can imagine a future where the lucky few who still have jobs don't actually do any work. Instead, they speak "New COBOL", a debased imitation of natural language, to machine learning algorithms, convincing them to do the stuff that previous generations would have to do 'manually'. "Please make the shark fiercer", these job-holding people would say to the algorithm, before feeding it huge troves of data that would teach the machine basic concepts such as "shark" and "fierce".

Obviously, some media commenters would claim that programming has been rendered now obsolete by the rise of New COBOL, but in reality, these lucky few speaking 'New COBOL' are the new programmers of that era. In a world where algorithms eat the world, someone still has to babysit the algorithms.