Play and earn millions

NEW ECONOMY: HIGH-PAYING JOBS INCLUDE LIVE STREAMING AND ESPORTS

Whether you are a farmer, student or a model, you can make easy money in live streaming.

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins – one of the world’s most popular professional gamers – known for Fortnite: Battle Royale – earns more than R7 million a year from live streams of his gameplay out of his basement studio.

Ryan Toysreview (presumably not his real surname), seven, of YouTube fame, makes $22 million (R325.6 million), playing with a collection of toys.

Blevins, 27, and little Ryan are among millions of people throughout the world who are earning millions in jobs of the new economy – ranging from live streaming to Esports and swagbucks, among others.

In his address to delegates of the well-attended Singularity University South Africa Summit 2019 yesterday, co-chief executive Mic Mann listed several jobs arising out of the new global economy, saying scalable learning and new jobs made it possible for people to earn millions through creativity.

Data labelling, he said, was among the new jobs on offer because “artificial intelligence needs good data for it to work effectively so, people are always needed.

“If one looks at China, people there are making millions in the live streaming industry that is today worth $10 billion.

“Whether you are a farmer, student or a model, you can make easy money in live streaming.”

Mann said skills required by the new economy included an agile mindset, creativity and networking, adding: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Electric motorcycle inventor Bas Verkaik, who along with 23 students Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, secured support from more than 150 sponsors, to ride 23 000km around the world in 80 days and he told of the challenges his team faced.

Inspired by author Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the students wanted to travel around the world but in a more sustainable way.

They built the first touring electric motorbike, which looked “quite odd, revolutionary and

Picture: Nigel Sibanda NEW AGE. Researcher in the philosophy of technology, cultural analysis and posthumanism Alix Rubsaam speaks at the Singularity University South Africa Summit 2019 in Johannesburg this week on Al (artificial intelligence) or death? Redefining what it means to be human in the software age.