By 2040, cabs will be driven by Google robots, shops will become showrooms for online outlets and call centres will be staffed by intelligent droids. The competition for work caused by a rise in the robots population will see us heading to surgeons for ‘additional processing power for our brains’. We may also be requesting bionic implants for our hands that will make us able to perform tasks as fast as any machine. Futurologists, commissioned by global job search website xpatjobs.com, say "Those who take these risks and innovate with their own bodies will be the biggest earners in such decades".