And by the way, forget about the "Tech Elite". They will be the first to suffer from falling wages, since pure knowledge jobs are the easiest to replace with software.
If I were to give career advice to a child born today, I would tell them to forget about science and engineering and become a stand up comedian, since this is the most difficult-to-automate job that I can possibly think of.
Programming and 3D modeling are the only professions which will be automated last time. When/if it will happen, it would mean beginning of the technological singularity (i.e. creating a machine with super-human intelligence capable self-improving).