Which Jobs Will Still Exist in 2033?

The free market can’t predict the future. How can we prepare?

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Futurists- those scientists, philosophers, economists, thinkers, teachers, and, most important of all, investors and hedge-fund managers- are always full of ideas about what the next decades might hold.

Many of their predictions and prognostications come to pass, of course. Hedge-fund managers who fail to anticipate changes in the marketplace are almost always forced to find other work.

Entire industries depend upon the ability to see into the future, anticipate fluctuations in the global market, predict the impact of cultural and social trends, preempt advancements in technology.

Economists, Wall Street bankers, retail sales executives, insurance actuaries, to say nothing of marketers and advertisers, build entire careers on a gossamer foundation of data analysis, trend history analytics, and number crunching only slightly more dependable than crystal ball gazing or the predictions of Nostradamus.

The future is more impossible to predict than the highway directly in front of our cars.

We look out through the windshield from the driver’s seat and try to predict the future all the time. To navigate traffic, we need to guess- correctly- what will happen on the road ahead. If everything continues…