The challenges of the fourth industrial revolution

With the increasing expansion of automation and artificial intelligence, the issue is how the nature of work itself is changing in a constantly developing digital world, demanding constant adaptation. This is the challenge faced by every age group in the workforce.

A number of studies published in recent years paint a bleak picture of future employment, predicting the loss of millions of jobs.

"Even though there is no hard data on the scale of automation in the future, it's undeniable that a very big change is on the way that cannot be ignored," says Byron Nicolaides, president and CEO of PeopleCert, a company that specializes in professional skills testing and certification.

Nicolaides is also head of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and spoke at length about the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution at its general...