As online shopping becomes increasingly the norm, there will be plenty of job openings for Amazon warehouse workers. That is, until Amazon reaches its ultimate goal of replacing all human warehouse employees with sticky, eight-legged robots (or Jeff Bezos clones). Naturally, Amazon's robots will produce enormous quantities of gunk. That's why the No. 1 job in the near future will be a gunk scrubber. That is, until Amazon invents a gunk-scrubbing robot, at which point the only job left in the warehouse will be a semi-licensed robo-spider-maintenance technician.

Mon 12 Nov 2018 08.21 EST Last modified on Mon 12 Nov 2018 10.30 EST The world of work is changing. Machine learning, the internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing are altering how society views employment and the tasks that are currently performed by humans. The World Economic Forum predicts that new technologies will create 133m jobs over the next three years – and these new roles may involve humans working closely with new technologies. As previously unconnected machines are hooked up to the internet, more data about their performance can be collected, resulting in the need for human jobs to adapt. The marine division of construction company Caterpillar, for instance, has been attaching sensors to generators, engines and fuel meters onboard ships.