We need to plan for Tech 4.0-driven creative destruction in employment

The future comes too soon and in the wrong order." "It is our moral responsibility not to stop the future but to shape it." The pandemic is hurtling the world into a Technology 4.0-transformed "future of work" much earlier than anticipated in the ILO's Centennial Declaration of 2019. India's global significance in mastering the future of work through technology-adaptive and high-productivity human capital employing the largest global cohort of 820 million youth is huge. Along with declining fertility rates and women's empowerment, this could yield a large demographic dividend of high growth rates for decades, despite short-term shocks.