It’s become a truism that machines will threaten jobs because, well, it’s true. Forrester tallied up 24.7 million jobs getting the axe due to machines by 2027. The silver lining is that those same machines will yield 14.9 million jobs, leaving a “mere” 9.8 million Americans without jobs. Which jobs? As Conner Forrest wrote, “manual labor repetitive menial tasks will be the most impacted.”

SEE: Research: Automation and the future of IT jobs (Tech Pro Research)

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Which brings us to English majors. And Humanities undergrads. And others who are more comfortable with Virginia Woolf than Javascript. (If you haven’t read To the Lighthouse, put away that C++ code and read it. Lovely.) Because, as Hartley said, “Those many tasks within a solid majority of jobs that will be immune to machine automation are those that cannot be sufficiently defined and programmed.”

Further explaining, he wrote:

Such tasks require creativity and original thought, intuition, coordination, communication, empathy and persuasion. In other words, humans might not perform rote tasks like guiding giant trucks to pick up piles of ore, or even elementary data collection. But they will ask questions of the data, help frame parameters, test hypotheses, collaborate with teammates across departments, and communicate results with compassion to clients.

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