ICT Future Employment

With jobs today changing as technology advances we should look to the future and asks ourselves what jobs may be required due to the introduction of computerised systems.
Today much of our travel and transport is already controlled by computerised systems, Air travel, trains, tubes, traffic lights and in some cases even boats are all operated with a computer system at the “heart”. Similarly factory assembly, packaging and all round manufacture of items today has limiting human interaction as much is done through the use of machinery either solely or with a technician operating the functions. Switch bored that are computer based again control phone calls and their crossover to other lines, even with pre-recorded messaging trying to market and sell a consumer items.
With all this in mind we must ask ourselves how far technology can really advance to which limitless human interaction is required. I foresee in the not to near future their being a greater need for technicians, as more advanced machinery is put into production and use. However with this in mind as technology grows the need for humans in certain jobs will in no doubt decrease. We may find employees within supermarkets replaced by that of the self service checkouts, as seen within various food chains, air ports and cinemas, with ticket administer machines replacing the ticket clerk.
With more maintenance jobs being required, there will therefore be a greater need for programmers, creating software to be used on new devices as they are released and used. Programmers and Engineers are the most obvious jobs that should see a greater need for employment, as more and more business upgrade and embrace more computerised machinery. With this in mind we can believe that more jobs will be lost to due to ICT in the future, as advanced mechanised systems become ever more efficient and effective there will in no doubt be loss in generic jobs that require repetitive functions of an employee.
Due to this we can look to educate our and future generations with skills, so that in the event of their future jobs being replaced by mechanised computerised systems, they rejoin the job market with their previously learnt skills, applying them to the maintenance of computerised machinery and other employment alike.
Therefore looking to the future is an important area of education we can start to consider, with the ever adapting and growing technology market, the employment of new unforeseen jobs will intern affect our generation or the next, because of this adapting education within computerisation and ICT need to assessed so that mass employment is not seen in the future due to mechanised replacement.