How to future-proof your job against IT revolution

Before alarm clocks existed, workers would be woken up by a person known as a knocker-up, who would tap on the window with a truncheon — and unlike today’s snooze button, he wouldn’t leave until you got up.

Technology has given birth to new career paths, but some jobs have disappeared as machines do them faster. A study by Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne claims that computerisation puts nearly half of jobs into the high-risk category, which means they could be redundant within 10 to 20 years.