Keep Learning in the Era of Automation

I work at QuantInsti, a leading global institute which imparts training in Algorithmic trading. As a quantitative writer and a trader, my world mostly revolves around volatile markets, trending stocks, programming trading strategies, scouting for alphas, and writing on topics that give an insight into the automated trading world. Naturally, as a part of my daily readings, I am accustomed to words that generally form part of a financial markets glossary. However, in the past few weeks & months, I found myself reading more and more on the surging layoffs, impact of automation, the rise of robots and the threat to our future. The list of such articles on the net seemed endless.