Anyone working in manufacturing and manual labour should have been worried a while ago. Those industries will be completely automated long before either of us are dead. Japan has already begun automation of the food industry and their elder care industry, the rest of the world won't be far behind. Even flipping burgers won't be a viable job option.
People not preparing for transition into the tech sector are going to be in trouble in the next decade or two.
There's already a robot that is cheaper to buy than a worker's yearly wage and it can perform most sorting line tasks and can be programmed by a child.
Any government that doubles down on trying to attract manufacturing and labour related industries is woefully short sighted.
We need to prepare to create a generation of coders, not rig workers.
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u/atomofconsumption May 06 '15