"Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster."

I grew up in a TV-heavy household and lived on a diet of 70s shows. I was particularly excited about futuristic shows that showcased fictional technologies, and none was as fun as The Six Million Dollar Man. It's a show about a cyborg (Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors) who has super strength and vision, and gets signed up as a secret agent to fight bad guys. Cue the 70s suits, fat collars, and terrorists from central casting. It was awesome.

Since then, I've always wondered about human potential and how its limits can be expanded. But unlike Steve Austin, when we hear about technology at work, the story these days is not one of human enhancements but a threat to our jobs. Many paint a bleak picture of machines easily surpassing human performance. The World Economic Forum (WEF), for example, suggests that as many as 30 percent of jobs could be lost in the OECD as a result of AI-based automation by the mid-2030s.

But there's another side of that story. The WEF also says AI will more than make up for the jobs it takes away with new, different, and hopefully higher paying ones. I firmly believe this to be true and see the challenge workers face is one of adaptation - something innately human and possible. This is a story not of careers lost, but of continuous learning, upskilling, and training.