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Today's kids will retire at 100 and work 40 jobs

Today's kids will retire at 100 and work 40 jobs

Today’s children may retire at 100 having worked 40 jobs, according to a Futurologist.

Rohit Talwar, who is also CEO of Fast Future, was speaking at a Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference in St Andrews yesterday.

He said that the cocktail of medical advances, combined with the substitution of robots for humans when producing goods or services, means the future generation will have a “portfolio career.”

“You might be driving Uber part of the day, renting out your spare bedroom on Airbnb a little bit, renting out space in your closet as storage for Amazon, doing delivery for Amazon or housing the drone that does delivery for Amazon,” he went on to say.

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