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In the Balance: Skills for the Future

Skills for the Future

03/02/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - In the Balance, Skills for the Future

What are the skills we need for the jobs of the future?

What are the skills we will need for the future world of work?

Fatalists might argue work has no future, that soon pretty much everything will be automated and that the robots will take over. Others say the rise of artificial intelligence and robotics just means the kinds of jobs we'll all be doing is changing. So what sorts of skills will prepare us - and our children - for the future of work, and for jobs which we might not even have dreamt of yet? Join Manuela Saragosa and guests to discuss what we should be studying now.  

Contributors: Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, co-founder of Stemettes
Susan Lund, partner with the McKinsey Global Institute 
Scott Hartley, venture capitalist, author of The Fuzzy and The Techie
Lord Karan Bilimoria Chairman and Founder of Cobra Beer and Independent Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords

Picture: iPal robots sing for attendees at the AvatarMind booth during CES 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 10, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Credit: Getty Images)

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