South Africa, March 4 -- While this article is another contribution to the futurist dialogue - thank you, BizTrends - it's not intended to be a bunch of predictions.

Every technological revolution brought a larger cascade of social changes than the last, often paired with an air of apocalypticism. I'm not that pessimistic.

The industrial revolution created more and new kinds of jobs, a higher living standard for more people, and different ways of thinking about services and industry.

Not all doom and gloom

So, in this digital age, perhaps it's not all doom and gloom with AI either. But that's not what I want to discuss.

I'm interested in the rise of niche professions that the 'fourth industrial revolution' and 'digital evolution' hav...