Opening lines: Soon we will rent out bits of our brain for storing Facebook memories

You can’t go to a conference now without someone putting up on a big screen some variation of the idea that “most of the jobs of the future haven’t been invented yet”.

The prospect of inventing a job is not an easy one unless you’re in a civil service department that refused to be decentralised, so they had to hire another person to do your job in Sligo, and you had nothing to do for a decade apart from play Patience and plan your holidays.

But aside from that, how will we earn a crust?