48 Unit 03 | Up to the job Read the text about the future of working life. First decide whether the statements (1–7) are true (T) or false (F) and put a cross ( ) in the correct box. Then identify the sentence in the text which supports your decision. Write the first 4 words of this sentence in the space provided. There may be more than one correct answer; write down only one. The first one (0) has been done for you. READING 30 Seventeen jobs, five careers: learning in the age of automation These days, failure to keep learning and adding to one’s skills is likely to result in becoming obsolete. A report predicts that 30% of British jobs could be automated by 2030, resulting in fewer positions for people and more redundancies, and this trend is mirrored in many countries around the world. As professionals need to update their skills more frequently than ever, so the education sector is evolving. It will cater for lifelong learning in a world in which young people are projected to have 17 jobs over five different careers, according to another report. In the halls and corridors of the converted St Paul’s church building in Adelaide, Australia, developers stagger around with virtual reality headsets wrapped around their faces, designers and engineers hunch over 3D printers, and tech-heads lounge in leather chairs debating the ‘internet of things’ beneath stained glass windows. St Paul’s is now a South Australian government-backed co-working space. People here are trying to leap to the next ‘big idea’ to stay ahead of others: a work model that futurists predict will become the norm for us all as technological advancements continue to speed up. Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the economy of always learning. Within St Paul’s Creative Centre, these innovative people have found a refuge from the alarming economic reality of Adelaide’s closing car factories, shut down retail businesses and abandoned offices. Many of them are working in industries or with technologies that didn’t exist a couple of years ago, such as Ben Tripodi, the managing director of MIK Health. Tripodi has a varied CV that includes work with mental health, digital marketing, cutting-edge bike part design, nutrition, development of high-tech sports garments, not to mention a sports career that inspired most of his bright ideas. He has co-founded three businesses in three different sectors and won a range of awards in recognition of his innovations. Despite all that, Tripodi fears being left behind. “If I don’t know how to code, I’m going to be screwed in the next few years,” he says. It is nothing remarkable that someone with so much professional experience is reskilling, but Tripodi is not some middle-aged veteran trying to keep up with the new wave of talent – at 24 years of age, he is the new talent. Tripodi graduated from his Bachelor of Health Sciences, and since then he has completed four more courses online and developed new professional skills from conferences, networking and a digital mountain of books queued up on his e-book device. All this doesn’t mean existing models of education are no longer relevant – Tripodi credits his degree in health science with teaching him not just the skills of that particular sector, but the kind of capabilities that will enable him to continue to learn and develop on his own. Tripodi is developing machine learning processes that analyse the feelings of workers to confidentially assess their mental health and allow companies to ensure they aren’t putting too much demand on their workforce. “Our generation is really promental health, and I think mental health is ripe to be disrupted, no one is really building anything like this,” he says. The online courses he completed after graduating have granted Tripodi new skills in addition to those learned at university. He is currently studying coding so he can communicate better with the technical side of his team, and says the ability to learn online Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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