Yes, predictions.

We have always predicted new technology would wipe out jobs. It doesnt matter in that sense whether we are talking factory looms or computers. It is certainly true that jobs disappear (I sometimes point out how the photocopier did to copy clerk, and thence the rationale for teaching everyone Copperplate handwriting). But our experience is that manu jobs just change and many unheard of jobs appear - imagine explaining a web designer to a Victorian.

The unanswerable question is whether the total number of jobs afterwards is the same or greater than before. While there are certainly "downs" our experience is that the trend has always been up. Maybe not this time, who knows, but there's no real reason to think that our ability to spot the new jobs coming along is any better than that of our ancestors.

What we do know, though, is that life long education is a great way of dealing with the lack of these new skills. We can't do it just on people up to say 25 and convert everyone over say 35 into the unemployable as the demanded skills change. So Corbyn is absolutely right to link life long education with new technology in the UK's interest.