Careers in the age of Machine Learning, or What do I tell my 15 year old?

In the age of machine learning and robotics, it is not only the future of work that is in the balance. The very meaning of a career must be reimagined. I have been amazed by the number and variety of people concerned with this issue. Old friends discuss it over dinner, it's one of the first topics broached with strangers on planes, and executives raise it in the context of both their workforce and their family. Two groups feel most affected: those in the middle of their career whose work will be made redundant and for whom retraining and finding new work will be difficult.