I have witnessed first hand, automation is beginning to be more prominent in the financial services sector, like you mentioned near the end. Where there are lots of "bots" doing the work of many workers. Bots are even starting to replace call centres, although I think the technology is not really up top scratch yet, its very clear when you are talking to a chatbot vs a real person.

This makes me think, what advice would you give to children studying in the future, I think it all boils down to what jobs are hard to replace with machines and computers, I think parents may start to encourage children to branch out to more creative skills, as opposed to expecting them to be engineers, lawyers and accountants. Which are by no means going to become obsolete but do have a bigger threat from automation as there is less reliance on creativity in these roles.

You don't find too many blacksmiths around anymore today, which occupation is next, and how do we start retraining and helping those transition away from jobs at threat from automation.