What will the world of work look like by 2066?

Looking back is much easier than looking forward - when Management Today published its first issue in 1966, Britain was debating decimalisation, the average weekly wage was 14 and workers were enjoying a'golden age' of employment and easy-to-find jobs. As our Future of Work special report has demonstrated, we've come a long way since then, but it's safe to say that the changes over the next 50 years will be ever more profound. Of course, no one can predict them with any accuracy - the future is not a mere extrapolation of the past. But each year CEBR, one of the UK's leading economics consultancies, predicts where the British economy will rank in 15 years' time. As things stand, it forecasts that in 2031 the UK will be the world's sixth biggest economy with a GDP of 4.7bn (compared to 3bn now), and that it could even overtake the German and Japanese economies during the 2040s.