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Sep 7 15 4:44 PM
BOOKING, paying, and rating electricians with an Uber-like app, teaching virtual yoga classes over Skype, and getting a medical diagnosis from a computer. These are just some of the ways technology is predicted to impact Australian jobs in the future, according to the author of a new study.Demographer Bernard Salt has unveiled his report ‘Super connected jobs’, commissioned by NBN, which looks at how jobs will change as we move further into the digital age.Mr Salt said the first, most glaring point, is that we will simply need more jobs, everywhere.“There’s going to be another five million Australians by 2030, so we need another three million workers,” he told AAP.But it’s where those jobs can be found that is interesting.Jobs are already being shed in agriculture and manufacturing, but expanding in health and education. Mr Salt says regardless of how technology changes, we are always going to need doctors, accountants, dentists, urban planners and teachers.It’s just the way they conduct their work that might change. “The sort of work they do and how they do it will be augmented by new technology.” For example, Mr Salt says the IBM supercomputer Watson, which won US game show Jeopardy in 2011, has since gone to medical school and is already being trialled as diagnostician.
BOOKING, paying, and rating electricians with an Uber-like app, teaching virtual yoga classes over Skype, and getting a medical diagnosis from a computer.
These are just some of the ways technology is predicted to impact Australian jobs in the future, according to the author of a new study.
Demographer Bernard Salt has unveiled his report ‘Super connected jobs’, commissioned by NBN, which looks at how jobs will change as we move further into the digital age.
Mr Salt said the first, most glaring point, is that we will simply need more jobs, everywhere.
“There’s going to be another five million Australians by 2030, so we need another three million workers,” he told AAP.
But it’s where those jobs can be found that is interesting.
Jobs are already being shed in agriculture and manufacturing, but expanding in health and education.
Mr Salt says regardless of how technology changes, we are always going to need doctors, accountants, dentists, urban planners and teachers.
It’s just the way they conduct their work that might change. “The sort of work they do and how they do it will be augmented by new technology.” For example, Mr Salt says the IBM supercomputer Watson, which won US game show Jeopardy in 2011, has since gone to medical school and is already being trialled as diagnostician.
Read more @ http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/the-future-of-australian-jobs/story-fnkgbb3b-1227515703732
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