Not all jobs will disappear during the coming robopocalypse. Many will survive for decades to come, all while thumbing their noses at the future robot overlords. The reasons why might surprise you.

As a country matures up the economic ladder, each successive generation of its citizens lives through dramatic cycles of destruction and creation, where entire industries and professions are replaced by wholly new industries and new professions. The process generally takes about 25 years—enough time for society to adjust and retrain for the work of each “new economy.”

It’s true. Robots will eventually make your job obsolete—but that doesn’t necessarily mean the world’s end is nigh. In fact, the coming decades between 2020 and 2040 will see an explosion of job growth … at least in select industries.

You see, the next two decades represent the last great age of mass employment, the last decades before our machines grow smart enough and capable enough to take over much of the labor market.

Within two decades, you’ll live through the automation revolution. This is a period where we replace large chunks of the labor market with robots and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Many millions will be thrown out of work—chances are you will be too.

One hundred years ago about 70 percent of our population worked on farms to produce enough food for the country. Today, that percentage is less than two percent. Thanks to the coming automation revolution being driven by increasingly capable machines and artificial intelligence (AI), by 2060, we could find ourselves entering a world where 70 percent of today’s jobs are handled by two percent of the population.

Between waves of crushing climate-induced recessions and a DIY culture entering the mainstream, the retail industry will fight and claw just to stay relevant between the decades of 2030 to 2060. As for shopping, the trends of the 2020s will intensify, with more and more of it entering the home.

There's a lot of hype floating around the general computer industry, hype centered around one specific technology that has the potential to change everything: quantum computers. Being our company's namesake, we'll admit to a bias in our bullishness around this tech, and over the course of this final chapter of our Future of Computers series, we hope to share with you just why that is.

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