Look at just about any rendering or essayistic sketch of the world's transportation future, and you'll notice two things about the cars, trucks, vans, and whatever elses tootling around the roads: They drive themselves and they run on electricity. The funny thing about that pairing is that there's no inherent relationship between a vehicle's ability to drive itself and what it uses to move its wheels. Relying on a battery can actually be problematic for vehicles running piles of computers and sensors, but electric rides are a popular choice for autonomy developers anyway, because they feel more like the future. For Swedish trucking startup Einride, though, the connection between electric and autonomous technology is fundamental. Getting rid of the human, founder and CEO Robert Falck says, makes the formidable challenge of running a truck on batteries far easier.

Listen in to this special episode of Charged Up!, taken from a live Facebook broadcast with Jason Schenker, who Bloomberg ranks as the world's foremost financial futurist. In this episode, we talk about Schenker's predictions, laid out in his 2017 book "Jobs for Robots: Between Robocalypse and Robotopia," and how the robot revolution will affect our jobs, our pay and our career prospects. Schenker talks about three industry sectors that are safest from being taken over by technology, what students should study if they're entering school now and what kind of skills will protect you from losing out to robots. So, get Charged Up! about learning how to survive the robot revolution! Jason Schenker: Thank you very much, Jenny. It's a real pleasure to be here. Hoff: So, we're going to talk today about your book, "Jobs for Robots" and this is a live broadcast on Facebook so we're also going to be taking questions from our listeners which I will then later translate for the podcast so we make sure that everybody can hear the questions. But first I want to talk a little bit about how did you get into being a futurist and then where did the interest in robots come from? Schenker: Sure, the most important thing is as a futurist there's three components to it: You're part historian because you need the historical perspective of where we've been.

Schenker, author of a newly published book on "Jobs for Robots," will also talk about the opportunities and threats due to automation and robotics. What are the key drivers that accelerate automation and potentially crowd out jobs for humans? How does Los Angeles compare to other metropolitan cities? What is the future of education, including online? Which industries are less likely to be disrupted by automation? Are you part of the in-hand labor market?