The key question will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?

To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, requires that you hone your ability to master hard things. And you must be able to do it quickly again and again. You must then transform that latent potential into tangible results that people value.

Nate Silver with his comfort in feeding data into large databases, then siphoning it out into his mysterious Monte Carlo simulations, is the epitome of the high skilled worker.