In an age of ubiquitous access to information and rapid job automation, curiosity has been hailed as one of the critical markers of human potential. A report presented by ManpowerGroup at the latest World Economic Forum highlighted that learnability, the desire to adapt one’s skill set to remain employable throughout one’s working life, is arguably the main antidote to job automation. Simply put, unless people keep learning and developing their skillset and expertise, technology will most likely make their jobs redundant.
